bench work

How to use bench work in a sentence

• The average, especially in the case of a shop doing much bench work, will fall as low as 40 per cent.

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 | Various

• It will also be noticed that "Operations" are divided into two kinds, machine work and bench work.

  Advanced Toy Making for Schools | David M. Mitchell

• But he'd bin used to bench-work all his life, an' didn't know what to make of it.

  Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer | George Sturt (AKA George Bourne)

• bench work in criminal matters was not excessive, and most of the civil cases were tried by the Myo-k (township officer).

  A Civil Servant in Burma | Herbert Thirkel White

• The lathe was a pleasure to him, and so with bench work, and within ten days a new and larger wagon was turned out.

  The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns | Roger Thompson Finlay