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gunworks

gunworks noun: a facility where guns are manufactured.

Noun

gunworks (plural gunworks)

  1. A facility where guns are manufactured.
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of gunworks

pluralgunworks

Origin of gunworks

From gun + works.

Questions about gunworks

What does gunworks mean?
Gunworks means a facility where guns are manufactured.
What part of speech is gunworks?
Gunworks is a noun.
What is the plural of gunworks?
The plural of gunworks is gunworks.

Words near gunworks in the dictionary

  1. Gunwinyku
  2. gunwise
  3. gunwoman
  4. gunwomen
  5. gunwork
  6. gunworks
  7. gunwright
  8. gunwrights
  9. gunya
  10. gunyah
  11. gunyahs

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