What is "gasometers"

Usage examples of "gasometers".

It was a vast busy space stretching away northward as far as he could see, methodically cut up into numbered sheds, gasometers, squad encampments, storage areas, interlaced with the omnipresent mono-rail lines, and altogether free from overhead wires or cables.

There were immense dark avenues separating heavy gasometers standing one behind another, like monstrous columns, unequally high and, undoubtedly, in the past the supports of some tremendous, some fearful iron edifice.

As the wind pushes the balloon against the gasometers, it is necessary to steady it now and then, to avoid an accident at the start.

Behind it a second air-fleet was already swelling at its gasometers when England and France and Spain and Italy showed their hands.

Cross Road with the blackened Victorian terraces hemmed in its valley, the intricate latticework of gasometers behind the station and the smell of hay in the passage beside the Royal Veterinary College.