Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for GROUND'WORK
GROUND'-TACK-LEGROUP, or GROOP
GROUND'WORK, n.
- The work which forms the foundation or support of any thing; the basis; the fundamentals.
- The ground; that to which the rest are additional. Dryden.
- First principle; original reason. Dryden.
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