tryworks

See also: try-works and try works

English

Noun

tryworks (plural tryworks)

  1. Synonym of trywork.
  2. A shore-based industrial shed or factory building for boiling whale flesh to obtain oil.
    • 1953 June 20, The Advertiser, Adelaide, page 8, column 3:
      The blubber was taken to the ‘try-works’ a large shed where there was a row of great cauldrons set in brick-work.
    • 1961, Tom Mead, Killers of Eden, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 41:
      One by one big blanket pieces of blubber were rafted from the water and hauled up the skids and into the try-works.

Noun

tryworks

  1. plural of trywork
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