† 1. Confectionery. Obs.
1572. in Feuillerat, Revels Q. Eliz. (1908), 178. Cullers for the sugerworke.
1653. Bk. Fruits & Flowers (title-p.), To make Powders, Civet Bagges, all sorts of sugar-works, turned workes in sugar.
1725. Fam. Dict., Sultane, a sort of Sugar-Work.
2. pl. (formerly † sing.) A sugar factory.
1604. E. G[rimstone], D’Acosta’s Hist. Indies, III. xxii. 187. The wealth of these Ilands, be their sugar-workes and hides.
1681. Act Parl. Scot., Chas. II. (1820), VIII. 360/2. The saids Tuo Suggar-works of Glasgow.
1722. De Foe, Col. Jack, xix. A … plantation, where they had an ingenio, that is to say, a sugar-house, or sugar-work.
1825. Waterton, Wand. S. Amer., I. 2. Higher up stand the sugar-works of Amelia’s Waard.
1902. Encycl. Brit., XXXII. 116/1. An impetus was given to the sugar industry by the Sugar Works Guarantee Act.
