This term means sometimes a mill, factory, or other establishment for performing industrial labor of any sort, (South St. Joseph Land Co. v. Pitt, 114 Mo. 135, 21 S. W. 449,) and sometimes a building, struc-ture, or erection of any kind upon land, as in the civil-law phrase “new works.”
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
