Definition of Gasworks

1. Noun. The workplace where coal gas is manufactured.

Generic synonyms: Work, Workplace
Language type: Plural, Plural Form

Definition of Gasworks

1. Noun. A factory where coal is converted to coal gas and coke ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gasworks

1. a factory where gas is produced [n GASWORKS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gasworks

gastrulae
gastrular
gastrulas
gastrulate
gastrulated
gastrulates
gastrulating
gastrulations
gastrura
gastrurous
gasts
gasworker
gasworkers
gasworks (current term)
gat
gat-toothed
gatc
gatch
gate
gate-control hypothesis
gate-control theory
gate-crash
gate-crashed
gate-crashes
gate-crashing
gate array
gate arrays
gate crash

Literary usage of Gasworks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1904)
"That on August 26, 1901, the city council of Los Angeles adopted an ordinance making it unlawful to erect and maintain gasworks outside of a certain ..."

2. The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material: Being a Treatise on the by George Frederick Zimmer (1922)
"... OF HOT COKE IN gasworks THE substitution of machinery for manual labour in the conveyance and handling of hot coke in gasworks, coke-oven installations, ..."

3. Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to by Edward William Cox, Great BRitain Magistrates' cases (1889)
"38 <tf the gasworks Clauses Act 1847, certain provisions were made as to preparing and auditing the yearly accounts of gas companies. By sect. ..."

4. The Law Journal Reports: New Series (1883)
"The private Act of 1878 incorporates the gasworks Clauses Act, 1847, ... It was not affected by the gasworks Clauses Act, so that no rights were conferred, ..."

5. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"ACETYLENE gasworks 68. In installing an acetylene gasworks it is best to put in a gas holder and a generator of such size that it will never be necessary to ..."

6. The Law Journal Reports: New Series (1881)
"The gasworks Clauses Act, 1871 (34 tf 35 Viet. c. 41), by section 35 requires the undertakers to fill up and forward to the local authority, by the 25th of ..."

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