bodge

To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.

We bodged again; as I have seen a swan

All the actions of his life are like so many things bodged in without any natural cadence or connexion at all.

To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.

His father, grandfather and countless generations before him had obtained a living from chair bodging in the solitude of the beech glades.

"Bodging is more a curiosity than a valid craft these days," says Don. "But experience in low-tech woodworking is also a good way for the beginner to start getting a feel for turning without having to make a huge investment in a modern lathe."

A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.

The simple tool above provides a low-tech bodge to help people locate missing friends and family in Christchurch following today's terrible earthquake.

The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.

A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.