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Wiktionary
n. A factory in which iron is manufactured or iron goods are made
WordNet
n. the workplace where iron is smelted or where iron goods are made
Wikipedia
An ironworks or iron works is a building or site where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made. The term is both singular and plural, i.e. the singular of ironworks is ironworks.
Ironworks succeed bloomeries when blast furnaces replaced former methods. An integrated ironworks in the 19th century usually included one or more blast furnaces and a number of puddling furnaces or a foundry with or without other kinds of ironworks. After the invention of the Bessemer process, converters became widespread, and the appellation steelworks replaced ironworks.
The processes carried at ironworks are usually described as ferrous metallurgy, but the term siderurgy is also occasionally used. This is derived from the Greek words sideros - iron and ergon or ergos - work. This is an unusual term in English, and it is best regarded as an anglicisation of a term used in French, Spanish, and other Romance languages.
Ironworks is an independent record label created and owned by the lead actor of the Fox TV hit series 24, Kiefer Sutherland, and his long-time friend and fellow musician, Jude Cole. The studio's first signed band, whom it is also known for, is Rocco DeLuca's band, Rocco DeLuca and the Burden.
Ironworks Studio is housed in an old ironworks foundry in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles and managed by Mark Somgynari.
On May 26, 2015, Ironworks released Out of the Wasteland by Lifehouse.
Ironworks may refer to:
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Ironworks, a building or site where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and/or steel products are produced
- The Columbus Ironworks building
- Ironwork, artifacts or architectural features made of iron
- Ironworks (record label)
- Iron Works (2008), an album by American hip hop artist Ka
- The Micromasters transformer
Usage examples of "ironworks".
Hakonin guarded the wagons with their precious siege engines, supplies, extra weapons, treasure and loot, and the ironworks that could be set up as forges in a semipermanent camp.
Unaltered was the triangle of streets where slums and public houses and brothels and cheap hotels had driven out those residents who could afford being driven out, where chalky steam gushed from pipes bending outward from glass and ironworks, where sidewalks were littered with orange peels and filled with mirthful singing and dancing at odd hours.
The future management of his extensive ironworks being thus placed in able hands, Richard Reynolds finally left Coalbrookdale in 1804, for Bristol, his native town, where he spent the remainder of his life in works of charity and mercy.