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ironworks

noun

  1. building or site where iron is smelted
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Wiktionary

noun

  1. A factory in which iron is manufactured or iron goods are made.

    But, like more than one similar North Wales beauty-spot, there had to be (at least at the time of which I write), a quarry, or ironworks, or some kind of industrial plant, which lay perpetually under a cloud of yellowish smoke—literally a blot on the landscape.

    Many of its cottages were built for quarrymen when local workings provided limestone for the great 19th-century ironworks at Nantyglo.

ironworks — meaning, definition (noun) · Vinony