gaswork

English

Noun

gaswork (plural gasworks)

1. (dated, rare) A gasworks.
   • 1875, John Chalmers Morton, A Cyclopedia of Agriculture, Practical and Scientific:

     Those who have inspected a gaswork will remember that the coal is thrown into a series of large cast-iron cylinders, or retorts, strongly heated by brick furnaces, into which they are built […]