gunworks
Firearm manufacturing plant
A gunworks is a factory or workshop where firearms are manufactured.
The term often appears in company names and historical contexts: the old Springfield gunworks, He apprenticed at a gunworks in Birmingham.
Like ironworks or steelworks, it can take singular or plural agreement.
Adjusting for measurement accuracy
- toleranceWillingness to accept difference
- measurementDetermining size or amount
- micrometerMillionth of a meter
- gaugeStandard of measurement
alignment · accuracy · bore · rifling · headspace · timing · inspection · machining
Industrial production facility
- assemblyConstructing from components
- productionMaking or generating something
- industrialOf factories and production
- plantBotanical organism
machinery · lathe · mill · drill · foreman · warehouse · conveyor · automation
Skilled manual tradesperson
- handmadeCreated manually, not mechanically
- smithingMetalworking by hammer
- metalworkShaped metal objects
- engravingCarving into hard surfaces
checkering · inlay · bluing · finishing · polishing · fitting · customization · restoration
Hooped cylindrical vessel
- stockGoods kept for sale
- triggerWhat initiates action
- actionProcess of doing
- receiverOne who accepts transmission
magazine · grip · sight · scope · silencer · bolt · chamber · hammer
calibration
Adjusting for measurement accuracy
- toleranceWillingness to accept difference
- measurementDetermining size or amount
- micrometerMillionth of a meter
gauge · alignment · accuracy · bore · rifling · headspace · timing · inspection · machining · specifications
factory
Industrial production facility
- assemblyConstructing from components
- productionMaking or generating something
- industrialOf factories and production
plant · machinery · lathe · mill · drill · foreman · warehouse · conveyor · automation · mass-production
artisan
Skilled manual tradesperson
- handmadeCreated manually, not mechanically
- smithingMetalworking by hammer
- metalworkShaped metal objects
engraving · checkering · inlay · bluing · finishing · polishing · fitting · customization · restoration · bespoke
barrel
Hooped cylindrical vessel
receiver · magazine · grip · sight · scope · silencer · bolt · chamber · hammer · safety
ammunition
Weapon projectiles and charges
trajectory · velocity · reloading · powder · primer · casing · grain · pressure · propellant · projectile
gunworkshospital
Medical treatment facility
bakery · textile mill · toy factory · food processing plant · dairy
gun, guns, gunned, gunning, gunner, gunners, gunnery, gunboat, gunfire