ironworks
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- noun
- /ˈaɪərnˌwɜrks/
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- One of the main employers in the area was the Butterley Ironworks at nearby Ripley (best known for producing the great iron arches at St Pancras station, it closed earlier this year), where output had fallen following the end of the war.
- Butterley Ironworks
It is it is really this old factory, former Ironworks factory in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
- It is it is really this old factory, former Ironworks factory in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
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Interestingly, Brillion also serves as the headquarters of three major manufacturing companies (Ariens Company, Endries International, and Brillion Ironworks).
Academic text (2007) -
The work was translated, and plates drawn, by Lady Charlotte Guest, wife of Sir John Guest, one of the proprietors of the Dowlais Ironworks.
Academic text (2016) -
Oregon Ironworks, Inc., based in Clackamas, Oregon, will manufacture the seven new vehicles.
Blog text (5) -
The next witness was of a rather different stamp: William Jessop, the proprietor of Butterley Ironworks.
Academic text (2016) -
One such occasion was at the Dowlais Ironworks in Wales in 1836, where a heating apparatus made up of ranges of pipes laid alongside each other was in use.
Academic text (2016) -
It was built in the Delamater Ironworks on West 13th Street in Manhattan with surface power supplied by petrol engines and underwater power from battery-driven electricity.
Fiction book (2000) -
He first saw the hot blast used in a blast furnace at Wilsontown Iron Works, of which William Dixon of Calder Ironworks was also the proprietor.
Academic text (2016) -
At Monkland Ironworks, he reports that a tubular arrangement similar to that at Calder was employed, with the variation that the large pipes were in a vertical horseshoe shape with small pipes between them (Figure D, top).
Academic text (2016) -
Neilson claims that this latter idea was suggested by an observation by James Ewing of the Muirkirk Ironworks, who had found that one of his blast furnaces, which was about a half-mile away from the blowing engine, did not work as well as the furnaces located near the source of the blast.
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The old ironworks produced a variety of iron goods, including tools and machinery.
Synonyms
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A building where people make goods using machines
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A large place with buildings and machines where materials are made or treated
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A factory where workers melt metal and pour it into molds
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A factory where workers take metal out of rock by heating and melting
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A group of buildings where goods are made with machines
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A factory where workers melt iron and shape it into metal objects
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A factory where people make things from metal like tools or machine parts
A factory that melts ore to get metal
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Etymology
Ironworks comes from two plain English words: iron, the heavy 'metal', and works, a 'place where things are made'. So an ironworks is simply a factory where iron is melted and made into tools and parts.