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ˈsugar-work
†1. Confectionery. Obs.
1572in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 178 Cullers for the sugerworke. 1653Bk. Fruits & Flowers (title-p.) To make Powders, Civet Bagges, all sorts of sugar-works, turned workes in sugar. 1725Fam. Dict., Sultane, a sort of Sugar-Work.
2. pl. (formerly † sing.) A sugar factory.
1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iii. xxii. 187 The wealth of these Ilands, be their sugar-workes and hides. 1681Act Parl. Scot., Chas. II. (1820) VIII. 360/2 The saids Tuo Suggar-works of Glasgow. 1722De Foe Col. Jack xix, A.. plantation, where they had an ingenio, that is to say, a sugar-house, or sugar-work. 1825Waterton Wand. S. Amer. i. 2 Higher up stand the sugar-works of Amelia's Waard. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 116/1 An impetus was given to the sugar industry by the Sugar Works Guarantee Act. |