plate shop

noun

, Shipbuilding.

1. a shop for cold-forming metal plates.

Example Sentences

When it’s time to work, I go to the plate shop, and always do what I’m asked.

From Literature

Rush said that, although the massive head frame that poked up into the sky above the mine was scrapped years ago for its steel, Burra Burra’s clinic, hoist house, plate shop and powder house will be restored in the first phase.

From Washington Times

The other buildings to be restored are the 1905 powder house, used to store blasting caps and powder, and the plate shop, built in 1940 for fabricating structural steel for the mine.

From Washington Times

In the license plate shop where our gang worked, he operated the machine that stamped out the numbers.

From Literature

Deaf James Porter works as a burner in the noisy plate shop where nobody else can hear anyone speak either.

From Time Magazine Archive