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millworker en · NOUN

Etymology

From mill + worker.

Meanings

1. One who works in a mill.
   • In DEFYING DIXIE: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore presents a colorful “collective biography of activist black and white Southerners,” including Communists and Socialists, academics and millworkers, who, she argues, prepared the way for the movement of the 1950s and ’60s. 2009 September 6, Elsa Dixler, “Paperback Row”, in New York Times:
   • Lostock Junction was another 'Beeching closure'. The quiet four-platform junction station primarily served the large cotton mills next to the line and the few dozen millworkers' houses nearby. 2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 56:
   • Near-synonym: millman

Forms

Hypernyms

person · worker

Relateds

millwright · miller · steelworker

Synonyms

millman