packing plant

noun

an establishment for processing and packing foods, especially meat, to be sold at wholesale.

Origin of packing plant

First recorded in 1825–35

Many factors operated against the success of de Mores' packing plant, which opened in the fall of 1883.
North Dakota | Various
The same issue of the paper cites that the town should have a pork packing plant as well as a paper mill.
History of Linn County Iowa | Luther A. Brewer
He was concerned in a packing plant at Kansas City, a business into which he was drawn by others, and of which he knew nothing.
The Story of the Outlaw | Emerson Hough
Four was assigned the loading dock of a meat-packing plant, but the night watchman wouldn't allow them to stay.
Solomon's Orbit | William Carroll
Early in the morning we reached the village of San Salvador with its beef-packing plant.
Journeys and Experiences in Argentina, Paraguay, and Chile | Henry Stephens

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