From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Factory \Fac"to*ry\, noun; pl. {Factories} (-r[i^]z). [Cf. F. factorerie.]
1. A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. ''The Company's factory at Madras.'' --Burke.
2. The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory. --W. Guthrie.
3. A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory.
{Factory leg} (Med.), a variety of bandy leg, associated with partial dislocation of the tibia, produced in young children by working in factories.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing [syn: {mill}, {manufacturing plant}, {manufactory}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "factory": armory, arsenal, assembly line, assembly plant, atomic energy plant, bindery, boatyard, boilery, bookbindery, brewery, brickyard, cannery, creamery, dairy, defense plant, distillery, dockyard, factory belt, factory district, feeder plant, flour mill, industrial park, industrial zone, main plant, manufactory, manufacturing plant, manufacturing quarter, mill, mint, munitions plant, oil refinery, packing house, plant, pottery, power plant, production line, push-button plant, refinery, sawmill, shipyard, subassembly plant, sugar refinery, tannery, winery, works, yard, yards
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