Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A manufactory of fish-oil; an oil-factory.
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Examples
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"Ever seen another pot-works like that?" demanded Mr Orgreave, enthusiastically musing.
Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899
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Now that the question was put to him, he never had seen another pot-works like that.
Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899
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The antique building had once been part of an old-fashioned pot-works, but that must have been in the eighteenth century.
Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899
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Dozens of times he must have passed the Sytch Pottery, and yet not noticed, not suspected, that it differed from any other pot-works: he who dreamed of being an architect!
Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899
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