vakwerk

Dutch (Brabantic)

/ˈvɑk.ʋɛrk/

noun
Definitions
  • 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 construction.
  • A truss, a support structure of interconnected beams or girders forming triangles.

Etymology

Compound from Dutch, Flemish vak (compartment, section, occupation, profession, trade, box, business, field) + Dutch, Flemish werk (work, product, labour, produce, job, object)derived from German Fachwerk (half-timbered construction).

Origin

German (Berlin)

Fachwerk

Gloss

half-timbered construction

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