Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An establishment, consisting usually of several connected shops, where iron is manufactured, or where it is wrought or cast into heavy work, as cannon, shafting, rails, merchant bars, etc.
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Examples
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The position taken up by my troops inside the lines of Chattanooga was near the old iron-works, under the shadow of Lookout Mountain.
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The tour of the former iron-works building turned matzo ball factory turned brewery is a brief 30 minutes.
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It certainly has a great quantity of smoke hanging about it, and is famous for its iron-works.
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I had not time to see the iron-works, belonging to Mr. Anker, of Christiania, a man of fortune and enterprise; and I was not very anxious to see them after having viewed those at Laurvig.
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 2003
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The port at which we landed was called Daiquiri, a squalid little village where there had been a railway and iron-works.
The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992
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Vast sections of it have been cleared, for this is the seat of the first iron-works of the country, and the trees have been felled to smelt the ore.
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Although mining and its allied industries of quartz crushing and smelting dominate all other industries in the place, there are also foundries and machine shops, iron-works, tile factories, breweries and extensive planing mills.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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For this the State would pay them eight thousand labour-notes of one hour each, and these eight thousand cheques would be divided among the members of the iron-works as they themselves thought proper.
The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin
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A cloudy day: do you know what that is in a town of iron-works?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various
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A pioneer iron-works was established here in 1814.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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