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machine shop
noun
- a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
machine shop
noun
- a workshop in which machine tools are operated
Word History and Origins
Origin of machine shop1
Example Sentences
There, an old guy with a machine shop had a job for Don whenever he showed.
In the grinding, squealing, squeaking, buzzing machine shop the men were not mixed with women.
But with the wife of the farmer, the woman's laboratory-machine-shop-studio is not a little room by itself.
His father spoke of sending him back to a machine-shop or some sort; I suppose he meant when the poor thing gets better.
Father put him in the machine-shop over at the Pump Works—best thing in the world for him—and he was just plain no account.
Some genius in the machine shop altered a matchlock musket to flintlock and showed the local gunsmiths how to do it.
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