erecting shop

English

Noun

erecting shop (plural erecting shops)

1. (dated) A place where large machines are put together and adjusted.
   • 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 285:

     Erecting-shop work was always hard and slogging, so that at the end of a 9¾ hour day there were not many who felt inclined for much more physical activity.

   • 1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 159, 162:

     The erecting shop has pit accommodation for 39 locomotives, [...]
     [p162] Eastleigh Locomotive Works: Layout and function of shops [...] Erecting Shop: Stripping and erection of locomotives and frame repairs.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “erecting shop”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)