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plate shop

American  

noun

Shipbuilding.
  1. a shop for cold-forming metal plates.


Example Sentences

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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.

From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 2014

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

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

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey