millworker

English

Etymology

From mill +‎ worker.

Noun

millworker (plural millworkers)

  1. One who works in a mill.
    Hypernyms: worker < person
    Near-synonym: millman
    • 2009 September 6, Elsa Dixler, “Paperback Row”, in The New York Times Book Review‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 June 2022:
      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.
    • 2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 56:
      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.

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