Millworker
noun
noun ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who works in a mill.
"Near-synonym: millman"
Synonyms
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More examples"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."
Etymology
From mill + worker.
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