Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An establishment in which dyeing is carried on.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a workshop where dyeing is done
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Examples
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I'd upped the ante to "warm piss" before deciding that warm piss actually has some value, as fertilizer or in old-style dye-works.
jhetley: Appropriate jhetley 2010
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We all smiled indulgently; the thing was so plain that it was almost silly to mention it, but all the same -- the man was forgiven his silliness, and dye-works were established.
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He has become a liquid; a flowing stream of tendency; an impersonal element in the economics of the dye-works.
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Half-way down this street, which is always damp, and where the gutter carries to the Seine the blackened waters from some dye-works, there is an old house, restored no doubt under Francis I., and built of bricks held together by a few courses of masonry.
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Half-way down this street, which is always damp, and where the gutter carries to the Seine the blackened waters from some dye-works, there is an old house, restored no doubt under Francis I., and built of bricks held together by a few courses of masonry.
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We all smiled indulgently; the thing was so plain that it was almost silly to mention it, but all the same — the man was forgiven his silliness, and dye-works were established.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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In the thread-producing mills, i.e. in spinning mills and finishing mills such as twisted-yarn mills and dye-works, most of the lighting tasks are solved by a general lighting or by workshop-orientated lighting.
10. Mounting of Lighting Installations Frank Ponemunski 1991
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"His keys for the dye-works and the fulling sheds, too?"
The Rose Rent Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986
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Or if the dye-works were on the banks of a running stream of clean water the dyed goods were simply hung in the stream to be washed in a very effectual manner.
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student Franklin Beech
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= -- This is in use in several continental dye-works.
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student Franklin Beech
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