gasworks

[ gas-wurks ]

/ ˈgæsˌwɜrks /

a plant where heating and illuminating gas is manufactured and piped to homes and buildings.

Also called gashouse.

Origin of gasworks

1810–20; gas + works (in the sense “manufacturing establishment”)

Gabriel felt humiliated by the failure of his irony and by the evocation of this figure from the dead, a boy in the gasworks.

Dubliners |James Joyce
I bought these gasworks and I own them, and I am satisfied to go on owning them.

Back Home |Irvin S. Cobb
Something very simple, as was soon learned; the gasworks had just blown up.

A Winter Amid the Ice |Jules Verne
Thus railways, gasworks, private households and a great variety of industries contribute to a Composite Demand for coal.

Supply and Demand |Hubert D. Henderson

The gasworks have been notably more successful than the electric plants.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 7 |Various

gasworks

/ (ˈɡæsˌwɜːks) /

(functioning as singular) a plant in which gas, esp coal gas, is made