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UK
/ˈaɪənwɜːks/
]
NOUN
- the workplace where iron is smelted or where iron goods are made
How To Use ironworks In A Sentence
- The ironworks at Tannehill were a major southern producer of pig iron prior to the outbreak of the Civil War.
- Not long afterwards he introduced the use of tinned iron containers in place of glass jars - hardly surprising, as he was a partner in an ironworks.
- When the neighbouring Skerne Ironworks closed in 1879, Wilson's decided to expand into the empty bridge girder manufacturing market.
- Near the ruins of the Tula ironworks lies a formidable canyon. Tapalpa: Land of colors
- Bronze statuary went to an ironworks in Alabama for touch-up. A Well-Maintained 100-Year-Old
- These were a huge success, and in 1802 many were ordered from Foxall and Richardson, the local ironworks that had cast the cannon barrels for the Continental army.
- The Lloyds Ironworks had been built on the doorstep of what had been the tiny village of Corby in Northamptonshire, and in time the ironworks became Stewarts and Lloyds, who turned it into the biggest integrated iron and steelworks in Europe. Jill McGown, in her own words
- When he was seventeen years old Lambert left his position at the ironworks to take up a post as secretary to Johann Rudolf Iselin who was the editor of the Basler Zeitung, a conservative daily paper.
- The geophysics suggest ironworks on site, including possibly a very early furnace for smelting iron, but we won't know anything until we start digging.
- Thus in ironworks, and shipyards and dockyards trade becomes dull, almost comes to a standstill and men have to be discharged. Manufacturing as a Profession