interwork
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- enterwork [17th c.]
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interwork (third-person singular simple present interworks, present participle interworking, simple past and past participle interworked or interwrought)
- (transitive) To work (two or more things) into and through each other.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- They had (saith he) certaine armes so curiously enter-wrought as they seemed to be made like feathers […].
- (intransitive) To interact.
- 1963 January, “News and comment”, in Modern Railways, page 10:
- Two three-car units have been stationed at Tondu for the new workings and will inter-work with others from Treherbert.