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zincworks en · NOUN

Etymology

From zinc + works.

Meanings

1. A factory where zinc is processed.
   • About 4. m. S.W. of Aix., near the great railway viaduct over the Geul, is an old castle on a height, called Emmaburg, from the daughter of Charlemagne, who ran off with his secretary Eginhard. Near it are the calamine-mines and zinc-works of the Vieille Montagne Company. 1868, “Sect. IV.—Prussia.—Northern Germany.—The Rhine. Route 36”, in A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent: Being a Guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland. […], Sixteenth edition, London: John Murray, page 247:

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zincwork · zincworker