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ironworks

/ahy-ern-wurks/US // ˈaɪ ərnˌwɜrks //UK // (ˈaɪənˌwɜːks) //

钢铁厂,铁厂,炼铁厂,铁工厂

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural i·ron·works.

    • : an establishment where iron is smelted or where it is cast or wrought.

Examples

  • After a decade-long pause, he served time again in 2001 for stealing $32,000 of equipment from an ironworks company.

  • The first steam rolling mill, with the exception of the one at Soho, was put up at Bradley ironworks.

  • The mechanical revolution itself began, we may say, with the exhaustion of the wood supply for the ironworks of England.

  • There were in 1911 fifteen flour mills, ten ironworks, three breweries, and one distillery.

  • The chief employment is the cotton manufacture, but there are also collieries and ironworks, which employ a great many persons.

  • At the ironworks of Luay  I found horses from the house, which brought me here very quickly.