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
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.
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