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gasworks

[ gas-wurks ]

noun

(used with a singular verb)
plural gasworks.
  1. a plant where heating and illuminating gas is manufactured and piped to homes and buildings.


gasworks

/ ˈɡæ²õËŒ·Éɜ˰ì²õ /

noun

  1. functioning as singular a plant in which gas, esp coal gas, is made
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of gasworks1

1810–20; gas + works (in the sense “manufacturing establishmentâ€)
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The house was built in 1886, one of dozens of similar homes that once graced a neighborhood known for its gasworks and breweries.

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Before the Dome was built, the peninsula was empty of buildings and covered with toxic soil from the gasworks that had closed back in 1976.

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Escaping from home on my tricycle at the age of two and a half, and heading to the gasworks.

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It is a cavernous temple to beer built out of the ruins of an abandoned gasworks plant dating to the turn of the last century.

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I leaned through and snapped a few shots of the gasworks.

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