mill-hand
- noun
- /mɪl-hænd/
:
trabajador de molino
- The mill hands worked tirelessly to ensure the factory met its production goals.
Examples
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Most mill hands in this factory operate the machinery that produces textiles.
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Mothers and daughters as true comrades, PR, s s and mill hands as real friends, all stepping out together to convert England.
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I want to get to know some mill hands.
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The mill hands go to church every Sunday.
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There's your new mill hands, Mrs. Kennedy.
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All those truck drivers, mill hands, and hog farmers.
Fiction book (1997) -
She could mix with the mill hands at the bar or meet with a group of lawyers.
Fiction book (1993) -
To become a mechanic, a mill-hand, he would have to adopt the English civilization, the English customs, and become, in the main, an Englishman.
Blog text (23) -
Thus, the authors claimed that Anglo-Saxon mill hands in the South had a lower standard of living than Lithuanian textile workers in New England because they simply did not "push from below" even though they had resided longer in this country.
Academic text (1995) -
Many mill hands gathered at the community center to discuss their working conditions.
Synonyms
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4.9
A worker who does physical work on a ship or farm
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1.3
A person who works in a factory doing physical work on machines and assembly lines
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4.9
A skilled person who operates and repairs machines to make metal parts
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1.4
A person who does physical jobs like building or fixing things
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3.8
A person who works in a mill to grind grain into flour
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2.9
A person who works in a mill operating machines to make things
A girl or young woman who works in a factory making cloth
A person who runs machines that spin thread in a cloth factory
A person who uses a sewing machine to join cloth in a factory or workshop
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word mill-hand comes from two simple English parts: mill, a 'place that grinds grain' or an early 'factory', and hand, which has long meant a 'worker', as in farmhand. So a mill-hand is literally a worker in a mill or factory who works the machines.