ironworks
ironworks is the plural of ironwork.
Meaning of ironwork
Noun
ironwork (countable and uncountable, plural ironworks)
- Anything made wholly or largely of iron, especially when used for decoration.
- The weight of the wrought-ironwork in each of the trusses is 460 tons, inclusive of the longitudinal and cross girders weighing 130 tons.1952 September, “Chepstow River Bridge Centenary”, in Railway Magazine, page 623
- An ironworks.
Noun
ironworks (plural ironworks)
- A factory in which iron is manufactured or iron goods are made.
- 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
- 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
Forms of ironworks
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Words formed from ironworks
Questions about ironworks
- What does ironworks mean?
- Ironworks means a factory in which iron is manufactured or iron goods are made.
- What is ironworks the plural of?
- Ironworks is the plural of ironwork.
- What part of speech is ironworks?
- Ironworks is a noun.
- What is the plural of ironworks?
- The plural of ironworks is ironworks.
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