Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A place where tiles are made; a tilery.
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Examples
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We have since procured branch-pipes to be made at the tile-works, such as are in use in England, and find them much more satisfactory.
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French
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In most tile-works, the tiles, after passing through the moulding-machine, are placed horizontally on shelves, which rise one above another to any convenient height, on which the tiles are dried by means of heated flues which traverse the sheds where the work is carried on; or they are allowed to dry without artificial heat.
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French
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In 1857, tile-works were put in operation at Exeter; and some 40,000 tiles were made that year.
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French
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He wandered aimlessly over the surface of the earth until he came to a tile-works, more or less unenclosed, whose primitive ovens showed a glare.
Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899
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Here there was an elevated position known as La Tuilerie -- otherwise the tile-works -- which had been fortified expressly to prevent the Germans from bursting upon Le Mans from the direct south.
My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly 1887
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There, on the south bank, you may see the long walls and tall chimneys of numerous manufacturing establishments -- cotton-mills, silk filatures, rope-walks, glass-works, tile-works, powder-works -- all designed to introduce the arts of the West, and to wage an industrial war with the powers of Christendom.
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A second set of fossils, which Dr. Emslie had derived from his tile-works at Blackpots, proved, I found, identical with those of the Eathie Lias.
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The tile-works at the point of the promontory rest on
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He listened to my advice, and actually had sufficient courage to take a lease of our tile-works, when he had not so much as a penny.
The Country Doctor Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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A little group gathered about the bars across the entrance to the tile-works.
The Country Doctor Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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