·adj Pertaining to manufacture; as, manufacturing projects.
II. Manufacturing ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Manufacture.
III. Manufacturing ·adj Employed, or chiefly employed, in manufacture; as, a manufacturing community; a manufacturing town.
Not carrying on manufactures; as, 'non-manufacturing States.'--Webster. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.