Meanings
noungunworks (plural gunworks)
- A facility where guns are manufactured.
Federal troops were used to break sporadic strikes, as in Cold Springs, New York, where workers at a gunworks asked for a wage increase.
2001, Seymour Melman, After Capitalism: From Managerialism to Workplace Democracy1 more example
Then, as news of the slaughter spread through the city, the streets filled with rolling-mill hands and other workers who broke into a gunworks and captured two hundred rifles and additional small arms.
2009, Barry Werth, Banquet at Delmonico's
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APA
gunworks. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gunworks
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“gunworks.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gunworks. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gunworks,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gunworks.
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