Manufactory
[,mænju'fæktәri]
Definition
(n.) Manufacture.
(n.) A building or place where anything is manufactured; a factory.
(a.) Pertaining to manufacturing.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Mill, factory.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a large manufactory, denotes unusual activity in business circles. See Factory.
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Examples
- Mr. Bryan Donkin, who was engaged in the manufactory, principally assisted in bringing the machinery to perfection. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Manufacture of the motorcycle upon a commercial scale forthwith commenced in the bicycle manufactory at Springfield, Mass. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The very size of the great manufactory is impressive--sixteen acres of floor space, crowded with machinery and resounding with activity. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Brunel, shortly thereafter added several machines of his own invention to Randolph's method, and he established a large manufactory for the making chiefly of army shoes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Sherman and I went together into a manufactory which had not ceased work on account of the battle nor for the entrance of Yankee troops. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The smith erects some sort of iron, the weaver some sort of linen or woollen manufactory. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But I really do not find much pleasure in going over manufactories. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The labour necessary to bring the lands to this sort of culture, employed and fed the offcasts of the diminished manufactories. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The destruction of the enemy's supplies and manufactories had been very great. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But it soon followed the example of Germany and Switzerland and established cheap clock manufactories, first of wood, and then of metal, which became famous and of world-wide use. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Motorcycle manufacture is today carried on in some of the largest and most up-to-date manufactories that can be found in the United States. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The destruction of the enemy's supplies and manufactories was very great. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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