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  • noun Alternative spelling of manufactory, a place where articles are manufactured

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Examples

  • So now I stick to the occasional attempt at perfume manufactury, and hope it doesn't taint the still.

    The Rise and Fall of the Green Fairy Heather McDougal 2008

  • So now I stick to the occasional attempt at perfume manufactury, and hope it doesn't taint the still.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Heather McDougal 2008

  • The parchment is prepared by hand, in one of the last traditional parchment manufactury.

    The Alternative to Playing Cards a stitch in time 2009

  • The parchment is prepared by hand, in one of the last traditional parchment manufactury.

    Archive 2009-07-01 a stitch in time 2009

  • After the expenditure of large sums on industrial plants, "for want of care the said houses were never finished ... and the ... manufactury wholly in a short time neglected and no good effected."

    Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker 1922

  • He met with her in a small town of Flanders, where she carried on a rope manufactury.

    Miracle Mongers and Their Methods 1920

  • He met with her in a small town of Flanders, where she carried on a rope manufactury.

    The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé Harry Houdini 1900

  • I live in the immediate vicinity of the largest carriage manufactury in the world, which turns out a finished carriage every hour; much of the work being done by machinery and systematized in much the same manner as the clock-making.

    History of the American Clock Business and Life of Chauncey Jerome Jerome, Chauncey 1860

  • On its ruins rises the manufactury of he new rifle.

    The Son of Clemenceau Alexandre Dumas fils 1859

  • Similar to this is the difficulty which old people experience in learning new bodily movements, that is, in associating new muscular actions, as in learning a new trade or manufactury.

    Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

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