Definition of Piece of work

1. Noun. A product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing. "Erosion is the work of wind or water over time"


Definition of Piece of work

1. Noun. A product or manufactured article, especially an item of art or craft. ¹

2. Noun. (idiomatic often derogatory) A person who has a strong and unusual personality, especially one with seriously unpleasant character flaws (e.g. ''a nasty piece of work''). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Piece Of Work

piece of clothing
piece of eight
piece of furniture
piece of ground
piece of land
piece of leather
piece of material
piece of music
piece of one
piece of tail
piece of work (current term)
piece of writing
piece out
piece rate
piece together
piece work
pieced
pieceless
piecemealed
piecen
piecened
piecener
pieceners
piecening

Literary usage of Piece of work

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"Then who will say but surely this may be A piece of work exact from dotage free. ... piece of work ..."

2. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (1908)
"A piece of work. BRITANNIA, sitting meditating one fine day (perhaps in the attitude iu which she is presented on the copper coinage), discovers all of a ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... is a very skilful piece of work. It begins by insisting on the faith defined at ... piece of work ..."

4. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1907)
"Piece of Work. When Mr. Myn saw it, he said nothing, but afterwards declared his Mind about it as being a very poor Thing, w«n neither pleased the BP nor ..."

5. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"ground being in fine tiJ (condition) for sowing, and of a man being in the tid (humur) for doing such and such a piece of work. ..."

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