mill-run

[ mil-ruhn ]

adjective

1. coming directly from a mill, especially without having been sorted:

   mill-run carpets.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mill-run¹

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85

Example Sentences

But the main trouble is, we're under contract to deliver our mill run to Marshall & Harding.

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Dad burn you, Victor Brouillard, you're a man—ever' single mill-run of you!

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Later came the mill run by horse-power or by the energy of a little stream.

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It is not dam easy to go in the summer, when the mill run night and day; but I say I will go.

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I know the history of the Cross from the day it made its first mill run.

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