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machine shop

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noun

a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.

Origin of machine shop

An Americanism dating back to 1820–30

Words nearby machine shop

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Example sentences from the Web for machine shop

I suppose you mean father might send you back to the machine-shop if you get well enough.

The Turmoil |Booth Tarkington
Here is a machine-shop with its hundred or more workmen, many of whom are anxious to study some mechanical work.

The Library and Society |Various
A machine-shop which seemed to have been abandoned in the middle of some rush job that hadn't really been necessary.

The Cosmic Computer |Henry Beam Piper
In all this class of grinding the speeds of the stones is very much greater than for machine-shop tool grinding.

Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II |Joshua Rose

He was earning five dollars a day in the machine-shop when they turned him away, and was considered by far the best workman there.

The Bobbin Boy |William M. Thayer

British Dictionary definitions for machine shop

machine shop

noun

a workshop in which machine tools are operated