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Discover LudwigThe word "ironworks" is correct and usable in written English
It typically refers to a factory or plant where iron is worked by heating, hammering, and forging. For instance, you could say, "The old ironworks on the lake supplied metal goods to the local industry for many years."
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ironworks
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A factory in which iron is manufactured or iron goods are made
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A skilled ironworker, Jenks emigrated to America in 1642 to help establish the first American ironworks (see Saugus Iron Works).
As the workers filed back toward the plant, one estimated that opinion at the ironworks is evenly split between those who support the pro-Russian separatists and those opposed.
The fearsome fists that hold the swords aloft are replicas of Mr Hussein's own hands, made at an ironworks in Basingstoke, a peaceable suburban town west of London.The symbolism of Mr Hussein's monumental architecture needs to be unambiguous to disguise the tenuous nature of his triumphs.
Since 1850, Paris though also a great industrial centre, housing, not least, Gustave Eiffel's ironworks—has sold pleasure, just as Las Vegas sells gambling.All cities, of course, sold and sell sex.
Early industries included ironworks, brickmaking, and shipbuilding.
Ostrava is surrounded by a rich black-coal basin that has made it a centre of heavy industry, with a long tradition dating from 1830, when the first blast furnace was built at the Vítkovice ironworks.
The first modern ironworks in Japan were in the coastal city of Kamaishi, south of Miyako.
Alchevsk was founded in 1895 with the establishment of the Donetsko-Yuryevsky ironworks.
While working in the ironworks at Le Creusot, he studied a proposal advanced by his former professor, Claude Burdin, for a new type of waterwheel that Burdin named a "turbine".
The impetus given by the coal trade was reinforced in spectacular fashion after 1850 by the discovery of ironstone on nearby Eston Beacon, and blast furnaces and ironworks crowded into Middlesbrough and adjacent sites alongside the Redcar Railway (1846).
Nikšić is an important industrial centre with a major steelworks, ironworks, a brewery, sawmills, woodworking factories, and a hydroelectric station.
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