manufactory

noun

1. (archaic)A manufacturing process; a particular industry or part of an industry.

   “The manufactory of sugar is generally in German hands.”

2. (archaic)A plant where something is manufactured; a factory.

   “Smalt from the King of France's porcelain manufactory at Sevres fused into a mass, and resigned its colour.”

   “We have just changed horses at Birmingham where I was two years ago and we visited the manufactories which are very curious.”

   “The furnaces of the manufactory must be fed.”

   “Bradshaw is always ready to talk 'manufactories', and here he confides that the town [Basingstoke] "carried on a rather considerable business in druggets, which has since fallen off".”

adj

1. (not-comparable, obsolete)Relating to manufacture.