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Dutch
Etymology
Compound of vak (“section, compartment; business, trade”) + werk (“work”). The sense “timber framing” is likely derived from German Fachwerk.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɑk.ʋɛrk/
- Hyphenation: vak‧werk
Noun
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
- a truss, a support structure of interconnected beams or girders forming triangles
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