metallifacture

noun

1. The production and manufacture of metals.

   rare, uncountable

   Given the necessary raw materials, capital, and skilled labour, nothing is easier than to turn trees into chairs, and ore into the finest products of metallifacture.

2. A manufactured article of metal.

   countable, rare

   Under the head of Metallifactures, we include the manufacture of hardware, brassware and jewelry: reserving, however, that of watches, for the following section.

Where it comes from

From metal or Latin metallum (“metal”) + -i- + -facture.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry metallifacture (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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