verb
- Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
adjective
- worked.
- elaborated; embellished.
- not rough or crude.
- produced or shaped by beating with a hammer, as iron or silver articles.
verb
- archaic a past tense and past participle of work
adjective
- metallurgy shaped by hammering or beating
- (often in combination) formed, fashioned, or worked as specifiedwell-wrought
- decorated or made with delicate care
mid-13c., from past participle of Middle English werken (see work).