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a mill for making gunpowder.
attributive and in other combinations, as corning-machine, corning-mill.
a tall round tower in which small shot are made by dropping molten lead from the top into water.
A nitro-glycerine factory.
(a) a building in which prisoners are detained on a certain charge; (b) a workshop in which explosive is loaded into shells, etc., in an…