toolroom

American  

[tool-room, -room] / ˈtulˌrum, -ˌrʊm /

noun

1. a room, as in a machine shop, in which tools are stored, repaired, produced, etc.

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toolroom British  

/ ˈtuːlruːm, -rʊm /

noun

1. a room, as in a machine shop, where tools are made or stored

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Etymology

Origin of toolroom

First recorded in 1875–80; tool + room

Example Sentences

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toolroom

At the drop of a soldering iron or the wrong twist of a vise, like-minded hobbyists from Havana to Hong Kong lay their problems on the workbench of this toolroom Da Vinci.

From Time Magazine Archive

Examples: code clerk, toolroom keeper, truckmaster and cartographer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Periodically a short man in rumpled suit and bow tie moves into the prison toolroom, lugging a tape recorder, a six-string guitar, a twelve-string guitar and a fiddle.

From Time Magazine Archive

They swung themselves on to the axle, jerked their way along it, came to the hole of which the miller had spoken, and clambering up through it, stood on the floor of the toolroom.

From A Hero of Li?ge by Strang, Herbert

He then went up beside his nephew, while Fred, bristling with excitement, hastened to the toolroom.

From The Grey Room by Phillpotts, Eden