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Meaning of Ironworks | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A factory in which iron is manufactured or iron goods are made.

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Examples

But, like more than one similar North Wales beauty-spot, there had to be (at least at the time of which I write), a quarry, or ironworks, or some kind of industrial plant, which lay perpetually under a cloud of yellowish smokeliterally a blot on the landscape.”
Many of its cottages were built for quarrymen when local workings provided limestone for the great 19th-century ironworks at Nantyglo.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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