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(Succarwark,) Sug(g)arwork(s, -workes, n. [e.m.E. sugerworke (1572) confectionery, sugar-workes pl. (1604) a sugar-factory; Succar n. and Wark n.] sing. and pl. A sugarworks, sugar factory. — 1681 Acts VIII 360/2.
Humbly supplicating that the saids tuo suggar-works might be declared to be manufactures 1681 Acts XII 46/2.
Sugar workes 1681 Glasgow Chart. II 215.
A petition … for themselves and … their partners, maisters of the tuo suggarworks at Glasgow, representing that … they … sell the suggar at a thrid part cheaper then the same can be imported from abroad 1686 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. XIII 61.
The West Sugar work of Glasgow 1687 Fountainhall Decis. I 482 (see Succary n.).
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