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- noun Alternative spelling of
manufactory , a place where articles aremanufactured
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Examples
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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
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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
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The parchment is prepared by hand, in one of the last traditional parchment manufactury.
The Alternative to Playing Cards a stitch in time 2009
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The parchment is prepared by hand, in one of the last traditional parchment manufactury.
Archive 2009-07-01 a stitch in time 2009
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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
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He met with her in a small town of Flanders, where she carried on a rope manufactury.
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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
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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
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On its ruins rises the manufactury of he new rifle.
The Son of Clemenceau Alexandre Dumas fils 1859
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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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