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gunworks en · NOUN

Etymology

From gun + works.

Meanings

1. A facility where guns are manufactured.
   • Then, as news of the slaughter spread through the city, the streets filled with rolling-mill hands and other workers who broke into a gunworks and captured two hundred rifles and additional small arms. 2009, Barry Werth, Banquet at Delmonico's:
   • Federal troops were used to break sporadic strikes, as in Cold Springs, New York, where workers at a gunworks asked for a wage increase. 2001, Seymour Melman, After Capitalism: From Managerialism to Workplace Democracy:

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