Millworker
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Millworker is a noun meaning One who works in a mill.
Meaning
One who works in a mill.
Example Sentences
Near-synonym: millman
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.
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.
Word Forms
- millworkers
Synonyms for millworker
Depending on context, synonyms include millman.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include millman, miller, millowner, mineworker, factoryworker, coalworker.
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