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hot-work is a verb meaning "roll, press, forge, or shape (metal) while hot". It carries one recorded sense.
roll, press, forge, or shape (metal) while hot
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hot-work come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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