steelwork

English

Etymology

From steel +‎ -work.

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Noun

steelwork (uncountable)

1. (construction) All the steel components of a structure.
   • 1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 52:

     During the war, but unrecorded because of the requirements of censorship, a link with the now partly-abandoned Cardiff Railway disappeared with the demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct, near Treforest, South Wales, in the latter part of 1942. The steelwork in this structure, amounting to nearly 1,150 tons, was salvaged as scrap metal to assist the war effort.

   • 1961 March, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 130:

     By February, foundations for the overhead wire supports had been dug and concreted from Colwich as far south as Polesworth and steelwork for the overhead structures themselves was being assembled at Hillmorton Sidings, near Rugby.

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• steelworker
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