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单词 sugar-work
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sugar-workn.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsugar-work.
1. Confectionery. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > [noun] > sugar confections
sugar roset1363
sugar-work1572
sugar snow1611
moss1706
sugar puffa1711
silver web1769
sultana1862
chip1876
1572 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 178 Cullers for the sugerworke.
1653 Bk. Fruits & Flowers (title page) To make Powders, Civet Bagges, all sorts of sugar-works, turned workes in sugar.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Sultane, a sort of Sugar-Work.
2. plural (formerly †singular). A sugar factory.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [noun] > place where
ingenio1600
sugar-house1600
sugar-works1604
sugar-garden1613
sugary1696
sugar-bakery1794
sugar-bakehouse1816
purgery1844
usine1858
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xxii. 187 The wealth of these Ilands, be their sugar-workes and hides.
1681 Act Parl. Scot., Chas. II. (1820) VIII. 360/2 The saids Tuo Suggar-works of Glasgow.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 373 A..Plantation, where they had an Ingenio, that is to say, a Sugar-house, or Sugar Work.
1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. i. 2 Higher up stand the sugar-works of Amelia's Waard.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 116/1 An impetus was given to the sugar industry by the Sugar Works Guarantee Act.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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