toolroom

English

Etymology

tool + room

Noun

toolroom (plural toolrooms)

  1. A workshop containing tools.
  2. In a factory, a space where tools are made or repaired.
    • 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 283:
      When all this was sailed through, there still remained the toolroom—a most efficient department presided over by a quiet man who was an expert on astronomy as well as jigs, tools and fixtures.

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