Meanings
- pluralplural of ironwork
- A factory in which iron is manufactured or iron goods are made.
Many of its cottages were built for quarrymen when local workings provided limestone for the great 19th-century ironworks at Nantyglo.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 258, about Llangattock1 more example
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.
1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, pages 18-19
Translations
Bulgarian металургичен завод
- металургичен завод (metalurgičen zavod)factory
Catalan siderúrgia
- siderúrgiafactory
Chinese Mandarin 鐵廠 /铁厂, 鐵工廠 /铁工厂
- 鐵廠 /铁厂 (tiěchǎng)factory
- 鐵工廠 /铁工厂 (tiěgōngchǎng)factory
Finnish rautatehdas, ruukki
- rautatehdasfactory
- ruukkifactory
French ferronnerie
- ferronneriefactory
German Eisenwerk
- Eisenwerkfactory
Italian ferriera
- ferrierafactory
Japanese 製鉄所
- 製鉄所factory
Norwegian Bokmål jernverk
- jernverkfactory
Polish huta żelaza
- huta żelazafactory
Russian металлурги́ческий заво́д, чугунолите́йный заво́д
- металлурги́ческий заво́д (metallurgíčeskij zavód)factory
- чугунолите́йный заво́д (čugunolitéjnyj zavód)factory
Spanish herrería, ferrería
- herreríafactory
- ferreríafactory
Ukrainian металургі́йний заво́д
- металургі́йний заво́д (metalurhíjnyj zavód)factory
Yiddish אײַזנגעשעפֿט
- אײַזנגעשעפֿט (ayzngesheft)factory
Cite this entry
ironworks. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ironworks
“ironworks.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ironworks. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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