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millworker

millworker noun: one who works in a mill.

Noun

millworker (plural millworkers)

  1. One who works in a mill.
    • Near-synonym: millman
    • 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...2009 September 6, Elsa Dixler, “Paperback Row”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    millman

Synonyms of millworker

Forms of millworker

pluralmillworkers

Origin of millworker

From mill + worker.

Questions about millworker

What does millworker mean?
Millworker means one who works in a mill.
What part of speech is millworker?
Millworker is a noun.
What is the plural of millworker?
The plural of millworker is millworkers.

Words near millworker in the dictionary

  1. millwheel
  2. millwheels
  3. Millwood
  4. Millwoods
  5. millwork
  6. millworker
  7. millworkers
  8. millworks
  9. millwright
  10. millwrighting
  11. millwrights

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