单词 | sugar-work |
释义 | sugar-workn.ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1572 |
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