setwork

noun

1

: embroidery used on tapestry

2

: two-coat plastering on lath

3

: boatbuilding in which abutting strakes are battened inside

4

setworks plural : the mechanism on a sawmill carriage by means of which a log is advanced towards the saw after each cut

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