Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural A building or establishment where iron is smelted or where heavy iron products are made.
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- noun A
factory in whichiron is manufactured or iron goods are made
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the workplace where iron is smelted or where iron goods are made
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Examples
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Thus in ironworks, and shipyards and dockyards trade becomes dull, almost comes to a standstill and men have to be discharged.
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In the world-wide amalgamation of shoe-makers into boot factories, and smithies into ironworks, which is going on in Europe and America, these little shops have been overlooked.
The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity George William Russell 1901
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“These are good, very good,” he said to nobody in particular as he waded back and forth between the stalactites hanging from the spectral ironworks on the walls and the measuring and collecting instruments stored in a beaten-up backpack.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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Ms. Downey: South of Market was the industrial section where a lot of heavy manufacturing was going on—ironworks, factories.
Curator Weaves Levi's Into City History Vauhini Vara 2011
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The Lloyds Ironworks had been built on the doorstep of what had been the tiny village of Corby in Northamptonshire, and in time the ironworks became Stewarts and Lloyds, who turned it into the biggest integrated iron and steelworks in Europe.
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"These are good, very good," he said to nobody in particular as he waded back and forth between the stalactites hanging from the spectral ironworks on the walls and the measuring and collecting instruments stored in his beaten-up backpack.
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“These are good, very good,” he said to nobody in particular as he waded back and forth between the stalactites hanging from the spectral ironworks on the walls and the measuring and collecting instruments stored in a beaten-up backpack.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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Elsewhere we marveled at the intricate rusted ironworks designs in the latest video of Amanita's upcoming adventure game Machinarium, saw Minotaur China Shop (and Jetpack Brontosaurus, coincidentally) creators Flashbang poke gentle fun at Braid creator Jon Blow, and found a wonderful series of T-shirts based on the glitched-out boot-up sequences of arcade games.
Boing Boing 2009
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Bronze statuary went to an ironworks in Alabama for touch-up.
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Near the ruins of the Tula ironworks lies a formidable canyon.
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