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Mill-hand   /mɪl-hænd/   Listen
Mill-hand

noun
1.
A workman in a mill or factory.  Synonym: factory worker.





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"Mill-hand" Quotes from Famous Books



... that is the only alternative to social degeneration and catastrophe. The man who does not live his belief is powerless to redeem or to create, though he were a Solon, a Charlemagne, a Napoleon or a Washington; the man who lives his belief, even if he is a mill-hand in Fall River, is contributing something of energizing force to the task of re-creation. "Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, ...
— Towards the Great Peace • Ralph Adams Cram


Words linked to "Mill-hand" :   working person, mill-girl, workingman, workman, working man


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