candleworks

English

Etymology

From candle +‎ works. First use appears c. 1795. See cite below.

Noun

candleworks (plural candleworks)

1. A factory or other facility where candles are manufactured or distributed.
   • 1795, Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet (editor), The Statistical Account of Scotland, Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes, Volume 15, page 503:

     There are in the village, 3 bleachfields, which employ 30 hands, moſtly women. There are alſo 2 candleworks, and a brewery.

   • 1811, A General View of the Agriculture of Aberdeenshire, page 587:

     There are also several breweries, tanneries, soap works, and candleworks in Aberdeen and its neighborhood, who pay considerable taxes to Government.

   • 1856, Young Men's Christian Associations of North America, London, Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association in Exeter Hall, page 140:

     Go to Price's candleworks, and see how the system works there: read Mr. Wilson's admirable report on the subject.

   • 1893, Chandler Belden Beach (editor), The Student's Cyclopaedia, A Ready Reference Library for School and Home: Embracing History, Biography, Geography, Discovery, Invention, Arts, Sciences, Literature, Volume 2, page 1438:

     The whole industry of the town consists of candleworks; but it is nevertheless the principal market of eastern Siberia for traffic with the native tribes of Jakuts and Buriats.

   • 1906, Scotland, Court of Session, Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Teind Court, Court of Exchequer and House of Lords, Volume 8, page 1118:

     There is no express stipulation by the superior that the building restrictions shall be mutually enforceable; and his silence on this point is the more marked because there is a condition with reference to a different matter which one feuaur might be well entitled to enforce against another, since they are both prohibited from erecting tanworks and candleworks and "other manufactories which can be reckoned a nuisance to neighbouring proprietors."

   • 1913, Julius Lewkowitsch, Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats and Waxes, v. 1, 1913, Volume 1, page 180:

     This is indeed the method by which commercial oleic acid is prepared on the manufacturing scale in candleworks (see Vol. III. Chap. XV.).

   • 1923, Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor, The Business Man's Geography, A Compendium of General and Post-war Conditions in Respect of Overseas Produce and Overseas Markets, page 481:

     The enormous local supply of animal fats and of cotton-seed oil led to the establishment of soap and candleworks, and vegetable-oil refineries, and these goods are also on the export market.

   • 1938, Emmott and Company (publisher), Mechanical World and Engineering Record, Volume 103, page 361:

     Heat accumulators have been installed in a large number of British industrial plants, including dyeworks, sugar refineries, food factories, steelworks, collieries, candleworks, dairies, breweries, gasworks, etc.

   • 1949, William Edward Gardner, The Coffin Saga, page 239:

     "Why, Henry, what else could you expect? Most of those men are only thinking of how this new arrangement of streets will affect the rebuilding and locating of their new candleworks and counting-rooms."

   • 1953, Robb Hansell Sagendorph (contributor), Yankee, Volume 17, page 11:

     It was boiled out, boiled and delivered to the candleworks of the day.

   • 1962, Carl Carmer, The Hudson River, page 68:

     One captain, Robert Folger, came back with a stinking cargo of sperm oil for the Jenkins' candleworks.

   • 1972, Benjamin Woods Labaree, America's Nation-Time, 1607-1789, page 101:

     Nor should the busy rum distilleries of Newburyport, Medford, Providence, Philadelphia, and other seaports be omitted, or such other specialized activities as glassmaking, and spermaceti candleworks.

   • 1980, National Ocean Survey, Office of Coastal Zone Management, United States, Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service, United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (contributors), Improving Your Waterfront, A Practical Guide, Volume 55, page 45:

     Many structures have been rehabilitated, piers refurbished, gardens planted, and a variety of commercial enterprises, such as hotels, restaurants, shops, a candleworks, and a glass museum have appeared.

   • 1998, Christine A. Arato, Patrick L. Eleey, Safety Moored at Last: Cultural Landscape Report for New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, page 59:

     The candleworks, built by Samuel Rodman around 1810, housed one of New Bedford's earliest candlemaking business until 1890 and a variety of other businesses until a fire damaged the structure in the late 1960s.

   • 2007, Eric Jay Dolin, Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America, page 111:

     The refining process began each fall when the spermaceti and oil taken from the whale's head, commonly referred to as head matter, was delivered to the candleworks, where it was placed in large copper kettles and heated, liquefying the spermaceti and removing water or other contaminants that might have been mixed in on board ship.

   • 2010, D. Graham Burnett, Trying Leviathan, The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature, page 142:

     he would eventually open candleworks in New Bedford, and his civic activities and expanding network of partnerships would help him win a valuable contract to supply U.S. lighthouses with costly and bright-burning spermaceti

   • 2022, J. P. Powell, Deception Bay:

     Two cranes towered over the old candleworks site; men from Camp Apollo had arrived for the first shift of the day.