ironworks

[ ahy-ern-wurks ]

/ ˈaɪ ərnˌwɜrks /

an establishment where iron is smelted or where it is cast or wrought.

Origin of ironworks

1575–85; iron + works (in the sense “manufacturing establishment”)

ironwork

[ ahy-ern-wurk ]

/ ˈaɪ ərnˌwɜrk /

work in iron.

objects or parts of objects made of iron: ornamental ironwork.

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; see origin at iron, work

After a decade-long pause, he served time again in 2001 for stealing $32,000 of equipment from an ironworks company.

Family's Best Friend Charged With Murdering Them All |Nina Strochlic |November 7, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The Company expected the sawmill to provide the planks and suggested a place near the sawmill and ironworks for the shipyard.

Some Notes on Shipbuilding and Shipping in Colonial Virginia |Cerinda W. Evans
The chief employment is the cotton manufacture, but there are also collieries and ironworks, which employ a great many persons.

The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 |Various
The Indians swept down on the ironworks community and left twenty-seven dead as well as considerable destruction to the works.

The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 |Charles E. Hatch

In 1775 he bought a pumping steam engine from Boulton and Watt's company for his ironworks.

Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed. |S. A. Reilly
Ironworks were established in the neighborhood of the mines and supplied many of the local needs.

The Colonization of North America |Herbert Eugene Bolton

ironworks

/ (ˈaɪənˌwɜːks) /

(sometimes functioning as singular) a building in which iron is smelted, cast, or wrought

ironwork

/ (ˈaɪənˌwɜːk) /

work done in iron, esp decorative work

the craft or practice of working in iron