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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Working \Work"ing\,
a & n. from {Work}.
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The word must cousin be to the working. --Chaucer.
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{Working beam}. See {Beam}, n. 10.
{Working class}, the class of people who are engaged in
manual labor, or are dependent upon it for support;
laborers; operatives; -- chiefly used in the plural.
{Working day}. See under {Day}, n.
{Working drawing}, a drawing, as of the whole or part of a
structure, machine, etc., made to a scale, and intended to
be followed by the workmen. Working drawings are either
general or detail drawings.
{Working house}, a house where work is performed; a
workhouse.
{Working point} (Mach.), that part of a machine at which the
effect required; the point where the useful work is done.
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