millwright

[mil-rahyt]

noun

1. a person who erects the machinery of a mill.

2. a person who designs and erects mills and mill machinery.

3. a person who maintains and repairs machinery in a mill.

millwright

/ ˈmɪlˌraɪt /

noun

1. a person who designs, builds, or repairs grain mills or mill machinery

Word History and Origins

Origin of millwright¹

1350–1400; Middle English. See mill ¹, wright

Example Sentences

The first name on the concealed letter was that of John Westwood, a 28-year-old millwright - a tradesman who works with machinery - from Edinburgh.

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His mother was a homemaker, and his father was a millwright who took Mr. Billings for his first flight as a third birthday present.

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Building an electricity plant powered by fossil fuels usually requires hundreds of electricians, pipe fitters, millwrights and boilermakers who typically earn more than $100,000 a year in wages and benefits when they are unionized.

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It was an easy step to the proposition: as a clockmaker or millwright is to a clock or mill, so is God to Nature.

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"For a millwright like me it's absolutely fascinating, and a great privilege."

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