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ironworks en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (form-of, plural) plural of ironwork
   form of ironwork
2. A factory in which iron is manufactured or iron goods are made.
   • Many of its cottages were built for quarrymen when local workings provided limestone for the great 19th-century ironworks at Nantyglo. 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 258, about Llangattock:
   • But, like more than one similar North Wales beauty-spot, there had to be (at least at the time of which I write), a quarry, or ironworks, or some kind of industrial plant, which lay perpetually under a cloud of yellowish smoke—literally a blot on the landscape. 1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, pages 18-19:

Forms

Coordinates

works § Hyponyms (type of works)

Deriveds

Gilmanton Ironworks

Relateds

blast furnace · iron works · pig iron

Translations (21)

nn jarnverk (factory) · uk металургі́йний заво́д (factory) · nb jernverk (factory) · bg металургичен завод (factory) · fi ruukki (factory) · es herrería (factory) · it ferriera (factory) · pl huta żelaza (factory) · ja 製鉄所 (factory) · sl železarna (factory) · cmn 鐵工廠 /铁工厂 (factory) · de Eisenwerk (factory) · es ferrería (factory) · yi אײַזנגעשעפֿט (factory) · ca siderúrgia (factory) · nn jernverk (factory) · ru металлурги́ческий заво́д (factory) · fr ferronnerie (factory) · fi rautatehdas (factory) · cmn 鐵廠 /铁厂 (factory) · ru чугунолите́йный заво́д (factory)