lumbermill
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of lumbermill
Vocabulary lists containing lumbermill
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Example Sentences
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They could nestle right into some long-abandoned textile-or lumbermill dam, and draw their power from the flowing river water.
From Time Magazine Archive
Born in Albany, Ga., the son of a lumbermill owner, he started studying the cello so that he could join the rest of the musically gifted Rieggers in family musicales.
From Time Magazine Archive
Son of a lumbermill operator, Andrus is a man of modest means.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both of them were astonishingly shrewd lumbermill operators and vessel owners, and neither of them ever took a bad dime.
From Time Magazine Archive
And I’m reminded, too, of the song that goes: My name is Yon Yonson, I work in Wisconsin, I work in a lumbermill there.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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