gridwork

English

Etymology

grid +‎ work

Noun

gridwork (countable and uncountable, plural gridworks)

1. Work in the form of a grid.
   • 2009 September 13, Jonathan Lethem, “Poet of Desolate Landscapes”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     To the south, as Halliday followed the winding course of the river, the darkness gave way to the deep indigo tracts of the irrigation project, the lines of canals forming an exquisite bonelike gridwork.