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Definition of Beadworks
1. beadwork [n] - See also: beadwork
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beadworks
Literary usage of Beadworks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1875)
"Take your time and walk, avoid museums, tea gardens, curiosity shops, abjure
Indian squaws and all their wretched beadworks, and you may have peace. ..."
2. The Catskill Water Supply of New York City: History, Location, Sub-surface by Lazarus White (1913)
"This dam also acted as a beadworks to divert the stream into a temporary mime to
carry the brook during the construction of the abutments at the pipe ..."
3. Reservoirs for Irrigation, Water-power, and Domestic Water-supply: With an by James Dix Schuyler (1908)
"The canal beadworks cost $20000. The gates have a discharging capacity of 4400
second-feet when the depth of water over the floor of the canal is but 18 ..."
4. Reservoirs for Irrigation, Water-power, and Domestic Water-supply: With an by James Dix Schuyler (1901)
"The canal beadworks cost $20000. The gates have a discharging capacity of 4400
second-feet when the depth of water over the floor of the canal is but 18 ..."
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