cotton mill
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cotton mill
First recorded in 1785–95
Example Sentences
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Samuel Slater, born in 1768 into a farming family in Derbyshire, England, was apprenticed at age 14 to the owner of a cotton mill that was using the novel Arkwright water frame.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
Colonial authorities, meanwhile, transform the Worli chawls - tenement housing for cotton mill workers - into makeshift prisons for detained nationalists.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
Early one morning, she spoke to a weary cotton mill worker who explained that she and her husband worked opposite shifts to care for their mentally ill daughter.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
Three years later, when his father got a job at a cotton mill, his family moved, and in 1971 Thornton moved to the Washington area.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2022
The two slightly shorter sides were taller frame structures—the machine shops and repair shops—and across the whole north end of the compound was the cotton mill itself—a gigantic six-story brick building.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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