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- noun Plural form of
manufactory .
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Examples
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Northern superintendents in Southern manufactories seemed unanimous in their satisfaction with the labor.
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Coal is used in the manufactories, which is dug from the adjacent mountains, and brought to the works on wooden railways.
A New Guide for Emigrants to the West John Mason Peck 1823
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The war had originally been the harriers and outlaws against a loose confederation of artisans and "manufactories" who lived in the city.
The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991
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The city-dwellers were artisans and what the twins called "manufactories," and trade both on the river and over it had been brisk.
The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991
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Employment at Pittsburgh's "manufactories" had plummeted almost two-thirds, from 1,960 in
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These "manufactories" are analogous to more recent metaphors such as "Adam and Eve" lineages - all are sources of ongoing cladogenesis
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The street railways of a swarming metropolis stand idle, or the rumble of machinery in vast manufactories dies away to silence.
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He also owned a ferry across the Potomac, a fishery, a gristmill that served his neighbors as well as his plantation, and a variety of “manufactories” that produced commodities for his plantation such as linen and woolen cloth that he would otherwise have had to purchase.21
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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He also owned a ferry across the Potomac, a fishery, a gristmill that served his neighbors as well as his plantation, and a variety of “manufactories” that produced commodities for his plantation such as linen and woolen cloth that he would otherwise have had to purchase.21
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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The difficulties that I had to encounter on first opening the manufactories and workshops were enormous.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
chained_bear commented on the word manufactories
Usage on gunpowder.
October 14, 2008