A pit or place in which wood or other organic matter is made into charcoal by heating or burning. Cf. coal, n. 2a. Now chiefly U.S. and Caribbean.

In plural. Chiefly with singular agreement. An establishment where wire is made or (less commonly) where wire goods are manufactured.

(a) a building in which saltpetre is made or stored; (b) = French la Salpétrière, a hospital for aged and infirm women at Paris; formerly a prison…

A workshop or factory for the manufacture of nails.

A factory producing rails for railway lines.

In plural. A factory for the manufacture of locks.

a sulphur manufactory.

a factory for making tacks.

a place or vessel in which tar is boiled for making pitch.

A factory used for the production or processing of rubber or rubber goods.

(see quots.).