gridwork

noun

Etymology

From grid + work.

  1. inherited from *werǵ- — “to make
  2. inherited from *wérǵom — “work
  3. inherited from *werką — “work
  4. inherited from *werk
  5. inherited from weorc
  6. inherited from work
  7. compounded as gridwork — “grid + work

Definitions

  1. Work in the form of a grid.

    • To the south, as Halliday followed the winding course of the river, the darkness gave way to the deep indigo tracts of the irrigation project, the lines of canals forming an exquisite bonelike gridwork.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gridwork. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA