Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The work of a journeyman.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Work done by the day.
- noun Work done for hire by a mechanic in his trade.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade.
- noun Routine or relatively unskilled work performed under direction of a supervisor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete Work done by the
day . - noun Work done by a
journeyman at histrade .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Through dialog and experiential exercises in the shamanic journeywork method, Hank will share his expertise as a shamic teacher and practitioner, now in the 27th year of his apprenticeship.
Today’s Featured Book Event-Marc Acito at Central Library - Reading Local: Portland 2009
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Through dialog and experiential exercises in the shamanic journeywork method, Hank will share his expertise as a shamic teacher and practitioner, now in the 27th year of his apprenticeship.
Portland Book Events: March 15-21 - Reading Local: Portland 2009
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Boston mechanic reprinted in The Man reminded "New York Trades 'Union" members that "the bos (sic) is often brought back to journeywork by hard luck."
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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We're taking a workout class together -- it's a combination of Pilates, sweat yoga, meditation and karmic journeywork -- and last night, when we were in the locker room, he was talking a bit about Google missing its numbers in this recent quarter.
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Jennie and I are doing some karmic repatterning, plus some soul clearing and journeywork.
Archive 2006-08-01 2006
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She also does karmic repatterning and soul clearing/journeywork.
Archive 2006-08-01 2006
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It is a rule in the imperial family of Germany that every young man shall learn a trade, going through a regular apprenticeship till he is able to do good journeywork.
The True Citizen, How to Become One W. F. Markwick
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He went a-pewtering no more, if ever he had been 'prentice or done journeywork for that trade, but was neither more nor less than one of the Blacks, and Mistress Slyboots, his Flame, kept him company.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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Marvelous Nature - I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars.
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Here is not the swift impatient journeywork of a rough and ready hand; here is no sign of such compulsory hurry in the discharge of a task something less than welcome, if not of an imposition something less than tolerable, as we may rationally believe ourselves able to trace in great part of Marlowe's work: in the latter half of _The Jew of Malta_, in the burlesque interludes of _Doctor Faustus_, and wellnigh throughout the whole scheme and course of _The Massacre at Paris_.
A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
hernesheir commented on the word journeywork
There is a lovely old Irish tune called The Job of Journeywork, that is played in hornpipe rhythm as the setting of an old Irish set dance.
December 8, 2010