Meanings
nountryworks (plural tryworks)
- A shore-based industrial shed or factory building for boiling whale flesh to obtain oil.
One by one big blanket pieces of blubber were rafted from the water and hauled up the skids and into the try-works.
1961, Tom Mead, Killers of Eden, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 411 more example
The blubber was taken to the ‘try-works’ a large shed where there was a row of great cauldrons set in brick-work.
1953 June 20, The Advertiser, Adelaide, page 8, column 3
noun
- pluralplural of trywork
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of trywork.
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