noun
- a factory or industrial facility where iron is smelted, processed, or manufactured into products
Usage: often used in plural form but can be singular or plural in meaning
Examples
- The old ironworks employed hundreds of workers during the industrial revolution.
- They built a new ironworks on the outskirts of town.
- The ironworks produced everything from nails to railroad tracks.
- Smoke billowed from the chimneys of the ironworks.
- The abandoned ironworks has become a historical landmark.
- Workers at the ironworks began their shifts before dawn.