spindlework en · NOUN
Etymology
From spindle + work.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Decorative trim around a porch.
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.
2009 August 23, Christopher Gray, “The President Was Here (Grant, That Is)”, in New York Times: