Definition of Factory whistle

1. Noun. A whistle at a factory that is sounded to announce times for starting or stopping work.

Generic synonyms: Whistle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Factory Whistle

factorships
factory
factory-backed
factory-made
factory farm
factory method pattern
factory method patterns
factory pattern
factory patterns
factory price
factory reset
factory ship
factory team
factory whistle (current term)
factory worker
factorylike
factoryscape
factoryscapes
factorywise
factoryworker
factoryworkers
factotum
factotums
factour
factours
facts
facts on the ground

Literary usage of Factory whistle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Baganda at Home: With One Hundred Pictures of Life and Work in Uganda by Charles W. Hattersley (1908)
"... —Mengo—The factory whistle— Cotton-growing — Fuel Troubles — Electricity to Come — Clever Thieves—Were they ' Mission Boys' ? ..."

2. Treatise on the Law Governing Nuisances: With Particular Reference to Its by Joseph Asbury Joyce, Howard Clifford Joyce (1906)
"... them.22 Upon the question of a nuisance caused by the blowing of a factory whistle, it is said in a late case: " The blowing of whistles at factories to ..."

3. Popular Law Library, Putney by Albert Hutchinson Putney (1908)
"... a factory bell rung to arouse operatives,180 a factory whistle,181 a factory whistle making a loud 107 Harrison vs. People., 101 I1l. "• Whitney vs. ..."

4. L.R.A. as Authorities: Including the Citations of Each Case as Precedent, (1 ...by Lawyers' reports annotated, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers' reports annotated, United States Supreme Court (1914)
"Edna Cotton Mills, 67 LRA 983, which holds that blowing of factory whistle will not be enjoined until fact of nuisance has been established: ..."

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