vakwerk
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Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compound of vak (“section, compartment; business, trade”) + werk (“work”). The sense “timber framing” is likely derived from German Fachwerk.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
vakwerk n (plural vakwerken, diminutive vakwerkje n)
- A good, professional-level job, ably skilled performance.
- A construction technique where a building's (exterior) wall is divided up by wooden laths into squares, often subdivided diagonally, then each square or triangle filled up with plaster etc.; a timber-framing construction. [from 19th c.]
- A truss, a support structure of interconnected beams or girders forming triangles. [from 18th c.]
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Derived terms[edit]
- vakwerk
- vakwerkhuis