Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural A factory where gas for heating and lighting is produced.
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- noun A
factory wherecoal is converted tocoal gas andcoke .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the workplace where coal gas is manufactured
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Examples
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A factory or even a gasworks is not obliged of its own nature to be ugly, any more than a palace or a dog-kennel or a cathedral.
North and South 1937
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A factory or even a gasworks is not obliged of its own nature to be ugly, any more than a palace or a dog-kennel or a cathedral.
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The NWDA was to release millions in funding for the clean up of the site, a former gasworks which is still contaminated by toxic substances including arsenic, boron, benzene, napthalene and phenol.
News round-up 2010
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The NWDA was to release millions in funding for the clean up of the site, a former gasworks which is still contaminated by toxic substances including arsenic, boron, benzene, napthalene and phenol.
News round-up 2010
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The NWDA was to release millions in funding for the clean up of the site, a former gasworks which is still contaminated by toxic substances including arsenic, boron, benzene, napthalene and phenol.
News round-up 2010
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The NWDA was to release millions in funding for the clean up of the site, a former gasworks which is still contaminated by toxic substances including arsenic, boron, benzene, napthalene and phenol.
News round-up 2010
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The NWDA was to release millions in funding for the clean up of the site, a former gasworks which is still contaminated by toxic substances including arsenic, boron, benzene, napthalene and phenol.
News round-up 2010
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The NWDA was to release millions in funding for the clean up of the site, a former gasworks which is still contaminated by toxic substances including arsenic, boron, benzene, napthalene and phenol.
News round-up 2010
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We had been told that the landmark, which would tell us that we were close to Cygnet and should turn off the main road, was an artificial hill called the Beckton ski slopes, which has nothing to do with winter sports but once was part of a long-demolished gasworks.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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We had been told that the landmark, which would tell us that we were close to Cygnet and should turn off the main road, was an artificial hill called the Beckton ski slopes, which has nothing to do with winter sports but once was part of a long-demolished gasworks.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
hernesheir commented on the word gasworks
I can't read or hear spoken the word gasworks without musing on these lines from the song Dirty Old Town, as covered by The Pogues.
I met my love by the gasworks wall
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
Kissed a girl by the factory wall
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
September 19, 2014