plate-mill

Then he went on to the plate-mill, where giant hammers resounded, and steel plates of several inches 'thickness were chopped and sliced like pieces of cheese.

The Moneychangers Upton Sinclair 1923

It had bought up the whole western side of the town, and cleared away half a hundred ramshackle dwellings; and here were long rows of coke-ovens, and two huge rail-mills, and a plate-mill from which arose sounds like the crashing of the day of doom.

The Moneychangers Upton Sinclair 1923

When he passed the plate-mill again, he saw that it was busy as ever; and when he went out at the front gate, he saw a man who had been pointed out to him as the foreman of the mill, engaged in picking another labourer from the group which was standing about.

The Moneychangers Upton Sinclair 1923

But Montague carried with him the sight that he had seen in the plate-mill, the misty blur about the whirling shaft, and the shrouded form upon the stretcher, dripping blood.

The Moneychangers Upton Sinclair 1923