ironworks

ironworks

1. plural of ironwork

ironworks (plural ironworks)

1. A factory in which iron is manufactured or iron goods are made.
   • 1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, pages 18-19:

     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.

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 258, about Llangattock:

     Many of its cottages were built for quarrymen when local workings provided limestone for the great 19th-century ironworks at Nantyglo.

• (type of works): See works § Hyponyms

• pig iron

• blast furnace