millwright
- noun
- /ˈmɪlˌraɪt/
- Specialized
- The millwright carefully maintained the equipment to ensure the mill operated smoothly.
- carpenters and millwrights
Examples
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The steel fabrication process involves a lot of cutting, bending, and assembling, and would require the skills of metalworkers like blacksmiths, boilermakers, ironworkers, and millwrights.
Blog text (31) -
There were fork truck drivers, machinists, tool and die makers, pipefitters, and millwrights all earning enough to feed, clothe, and shelter a family with very little help from the government.
Blog text (12) -
Her father, who never finished high school, was a millwright in a paper mill; her mother was a chambermaid and then later in life, a secretary.
Academic text (1995) -
"I started as a millwright at LeBlanc Sugar Mill, and when I retired, I was a foreman over all the maintenance people."
Fiction book (1997) -
The second case is Philomen Vawter Crawford, a millwright by trade.
Academic text (2006) -
Sturgis was a very, very competent millwright, machinist, and fabricator.
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She tells a poignant story about her youth and how her father, a millwright, could never get the machine grease completely off his hands when he came home from the factory at night.
Academic text (1995) -
One such rule we had to deal with constantly was that governing fans—the large fans with the round metal floor stands used to circulate air when needed—required a millwright to move it and an electrician to plug it into the wall socket and turn it on.
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A skilled millwright designed and installed the new machinery at the flour mill.
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After completing his apprenticeship, he became a qualified millwright specializing in repairing old mills.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Millwright comes from mill and wright, where wright means 'maker' or 'builder' (think of a wheelwright who makes wheels). So a millwright is a skilled maker and fixer of mills and their machines.