noun

• (usually in the plural) Operation; action.
• (arithmetic) The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.
  "Be sure to check your working."
• (of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
• (countable) A train movement.
  "From time to time the coaches of the Lötschberg Railway itself, which in comfort and décor can rank with the finest in Europe today, travel far from the frontiers of Switzerland on through workings such as these."

adj

• (obsolete) Efficacious.
  "You ſee my Lord, what woorking woordes hee hath. But when you ſee his actions ſtop ^([sic – meaning top]) his ſpeech, Your ſpeech will ſtay, or ſo extol his worth, As I ſhalbe commended and excuſde For turning my poore charge to his direction."