Meaning of metallifacture | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The production and manufacture of metals.
   rare, uncountable
2. A manufactured article of metal.
   countable, rare

Examples

“Given the necessary raw materials, capital, and skilled labour, nothing is easier than to turn trees into chairs, and ore into the finest products of metallifacture.”

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“Chiefly works in Germ., Engl. and French, esp. on Machinery, Electrotechnic, Architecture, Engineering, Metallifacture, Mechanics, Textile and Leather Industries, Papermaking, Ind. for the supply of Chemicals and Provisions, on Patents and Traffic; […]”

“Under the head of Metallifactures, we include the manufacture of hardware, brassware and jewelry: reserving, however, that of watches, for the following section.”

“3. Manufactures. […] b. Furniture.  (1.) General and Unclassified.  H 6  (2.) Metallifactures.      H 7”

“Eventually, of course, the West will absorb enormous quantities of locally-produced metallifactures; the war may easily hasten the establishment of some of these factories close to the point of production.”

“One is accustomed, when thinking of things connected with the manufacture of modern machine parts, to assume that heat treatment actually has been demonstrated. That is to say, that factory or shop executives universally recognize the fact that the physical properties of metallifactures may be altered and adjusted by a properly selected schedule of heating and cooling.”

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