gasworks

[ gas-wurks ]

/ ˈgæsˌwɜrks /

noun, plural gas·works. (used with a singular verb)

a plant where heating and illuminating gas is manufactured and piped to homes and buildings.

Nearby words

gastrotropic, gastrovascular, gastrula, gastrulate, gastrulation, gasworks, gat, gat-toothed, gata, gate, gate array

Origin of gasworks

1810–20; gas + works (in the sense “manufacturing establishment”)

Also called gashouse.

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Examples from the Web for gasworks

Gabriel felt humiliated by the failure of his irony and by the evocation of this figure from the dead, a boy in the gasworks.
Dubliners|James Joyce
I bought these gasworks and I own them, and I am satisfied to go on owning them.
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Something very simple, as was soon learned; the gasworks had just blown up.
A Winter Amid the Ice|Jules Verne
Thus railways, gasworks, private households and a great variety of industries contribute to a Composite Demand for coal.
Supply and Demand|Hubert D. Henderson

The gasworks have been notably more successful than the electric plants.
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British Dictionary definitions for gasworks

gasworks

/ (ˈɡæsˌwɜːks) /

noun

(functioning as singular) a plant in which gas, esp coal gas, is made

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