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stockworks

stockworks is the plural of stockwork.

Meaning of stockwork

Noun

stockwork (plural stockworks)

  1. A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
  2. A metalliferous deposit characterized by the impregnation of the mass of rock with many small veins or nests irregularly grouped, especially common with tin ore.

Questions about stockworks

What is stockworks the plural of?
Stockworks is the plural of stockwork.

Words near stockworks in the dictionary

  1. stockwomen
  2. Stockwood
  3. stockwork
  4. stockworker
  5. stockworkers
  6. stockworks
  7. stocky
  8. stockyard
  9. Stockyard Creek
  10. Stockyard Hill
  11. stockyards

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