millwright
Americannoun
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a person who erects the machinery of a mill.
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a person who designs and erects mills and mill machinery.
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a person who maintains and repairs machinery in a mill.
noun
Etymology
Origin of millwright
Example Sentences
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As a millwright, he was following in the footsteps of his father, David Westwood.
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2024
His mother was a homemaker, and his father was a millwright who took Mr. Billings for his first flight as a third birthday present.
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2022
When journeyperson millwright Cassandra Whalen landed in remote Voisey’s Bay, Labrador for a recent job, she discovered there was no safety equipment in her size on site.
From Reuters • Jul. 29, 2021
For more than 40 years, Arnold Richards drove an hour each way daily from Ritchie County to DuPont’s plant near Parkersburg, where he worked as a millwright.
From Salon • Nov. 18, 2018
It was an easy step to the proposition: as a clockmaker or millwright is to a clock or mill, so is God to Nature.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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