trywork

See also: try-work and try work

English

A trywork on display at the Southampton Historical Museum

Alternative forms

• tryworks, try work, try-work

Etymology

try (“to extract oil from whale blubber”) +‎ work

Noun

trywork (plural tryworks)

1. (nautical) A furnace on a ship used to heat try pots.

Translations

furnace used to heat try pots

Further reading

• trywork on Wikipedia.Wikipedia