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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
steelworks
noun
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▪ Above the rain and the blackness low clouds touched with pink from the steelworks sidled across the sky.
▪ Bridge gone: Workers demolished the old steelworks bridge in Coronation Drive, Hartlepool.
▪ I took over and we lost our way where a blackened adobe town sprawled over a hill above a steelworks.
▪ Krupp said last week it would close one of its steelworks if the tricky co-operation talks fail.
▪ On either side of me, the steelworks darkened against the raggy, saffron sky.
▪ The site of a former steelworks near Blantyre in Lanarkshire has already been earmarked for land reclamation using sludge.
▪ There was the occasional clank and groan from the formless black and gold of the steelworks.
Wiktionary
steelworks

n. A place where steel is manufactured and/or shaped.

WordNet
steelworks

n. a factory where steel is made [syn: steel mill, steel plant, steel factory]

Usage examples of "steelworks".

It listed closings and layoffs: a felt-skirt factory, a picture-frame factory, a glass-cutting establishment, a steelworks factory.

He built a fence 3 miles long and 12 feet high around the steelworks and topped it with barbed wire, adding peepholes for rifles.

Two enemy regiments were holding out in the steelworks and had so far refused to be dislodged.

Staring up at the shattered walls of the steelworks, it slowly dawned on me what it would mean if the factory fell.

In spite of our payments for freed slaves, despite the founding of mills, steelworks, even gunmakers, there is still an element that will not accept the new South.

I had visited steelworks and the like during the manufacture of components of my own Time Machine, and earlier devices: I had watched molten iron run from the blast-furnaces into Bessemer converters, there to be oxidized and mixed with spiegel and carbon.

Ships were no longer made entirely of wood, so steelworks and oil refineries arose to build the battleships and freighters of the steam era.

Though the steelworks are all individually owned, the towns themselves were set up by a landlord who owns everything save the businesses.

I had taken a bubble car to drive out to one of the steelworks, with a reliable driver.

This was the time of the unlimited belief in progress, and Queen Victoria sat with the sleeping lions at her feet and watched benevolently how the sky was darkened by smoke from railways and steelworks.