“In 1838 he established a dyeworks at Govanhaugh, and his increased standing led to his appointment as a bailie of the Gorbals.”
“In the middle 1950s the river was so polluted by dyeworks in the middle reaches between Todmorden and Sowerby Bridge, that it ran different opaque colours from day to day.”
dyebath
The liquid used for dyeing something by submerging it.
“Dutch merchants were active in the Caribbean, mining salt and dyewoods on the coast of Brazil.”
“From the tropical forests of the inland regions come dyewoods, hardwoods, and rubber.”
“The most important cargo carried was raw cotton from Liverpool to Manchester but timber, dyewoods, pig iron, lead, copper, nails, tar, sand, grain and flour were also carried.”