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spindlework (uncountable)
- (architecture) Decorative trim around a porch.[1]
- Synonym: spoolwork
2009 August 23, Christopher Gray, “The President Was Here (Grant, That Is)”, in New York Times[1]:
George Landers, a manufacturer from New Britain, Conn., built No. 51, with porch-fence cutouts of horses, rabbits and swans; tiny dragon heads lunge out from the delicate spindlework.