Definition of "manufactories" []

• Plural form of manufactory. (noun)

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• "Northern superintendents in Southern manufactories seemed unanimous in their satisfaction with the labor."
• "Coal is used in the manufactories, which is dug from the adjacent mountains, and brought to the works on wooden railways."
• "The city-dwellers were artisans and what the twins called "manufactories," and trade both on the river and over it had been brisk."