gasworks

[ gas-wurks ]

noun,plural gas·works.(used with a singular verb)
  1. a plant where heating and illuminating gas is manufactured and piped to homes and buildings.

Origin of gasworks

1
1810–20; gas + works (in the sense “manufacturing establishment”)

Words Nearby gasworks

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How to use gasworks in a sentence

  • Pass the ruined gasworks and follow the main street shown in the photo below.

  • During the past twenty-four hours I have examined into the franchise of those gasworks.

    Back Home | Irvin S. Cobb
  • The price of them gasworks, accordin' to the latest quotations, was sixty thousand—but liable to advance without notice.

    Back Home | Irvin S. Cobb
  • The chimneys on the right bank are a long way off, the gasworks higher up are out of sight.

    London Impressions | Alice Meynell
  • A Tramway or a gasworks consists of two things: the actual plant, and the nominal capital which represents its value.

British Dictionary definitions for gasworks

gasworks

/ (ˈɡæsˌwɜːks) /


noun
  1. (functioning as singular) a plant in which gas, esp coal gas, is made

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