Meaning of workworn | Babel Free

Definitions

worn as a result of manual labour

Examples

“He blames everything on that farmer with glasses and two shirts. The man mocked, whether out of his mouth or in the paced motions of his work-worn hands or through his hairy ears, somewhere out of his body he mocked the furtive wordless hopes that at moments give Harry a sensation of arrival.”

“The woman held a silver ring out in a workworn hand. It trembled.”

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