plate shop

noun

Shipbuilding.

1. a shop for cold-forming metal plates.

Example Sentences

When it’s time to work, I go to the plate shop, and always do what I’m asked.

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Rush said that, although the massive head frame that poked up into the sky above the mine was scrapped years ago for its steel, Burra Burra’s clinic, hoist house, plate shop and powder house will be restored in the first phase.

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The other buildings to be restored are the 1905 powder house, used to store blasting caps and powder, and the plate shop, built in 1940 for fabricating structural steel for the mine.

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In the license plate shop where our gang worked, he operated the machine that stamped out the numbers.

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Deaf James Porter works as a burner in the noisy plate shop where nobody else can hear anyone speak either.

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