Definition of "gas-works" [gas-works]

• An establishment in which illuminating gas is manufactured, and whence it is distributed by pipes to points of consumption.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The Asiatic air-fleet is at present scattered all over the Eastern States, seeking out and destroying gas-works and whatever seems conducive to the building of airships or the transport of troops."
• "He as sitting on the fence at the end of his garden and surveying the great Bun Hill gas-works with an eye that neither praised nor blamed."
• "Distribution Company set up transformers and a generating station close beside the old gas-works — but, also a junction on the suburban mono-rail system."