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bodging

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verb

  1. To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.“All the actions of his life are like so many things bodged in without any natural cadence or connexion at all. — (A book of characters, selected from the writings of Overbury, Earle, and Butler, Thomas Overbury and John Earle, 1865)”
  2. To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.

noun

  1. Traditional craft of turning wood for chair legs, braces, etc.

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