The Collaborative International Dictionary
Factory \Fac"to*ry\, n.; pl. Factories (-r[i^]z). [Cf. F. factorerie.]
A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. ``The Company's factory at Madras.''
--Burke.The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory.
--W. Guthrie.-
A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory.
Factory leg (Med.), a variety of bandy leg, associated with partial dislocation of the tibia, produced in young children by working in factories.
Wiktionary
n. (context medicine archaic English) A variety of bandy leg, associated with partial dislocation of the tibia, once seen in young children who worked in factory.