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.
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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.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2022
Production workers here create proposals to simplify tasks that are “too heavy or too hard,” said millwright Greg Harman, who is on a team of 10 UAW workers that implements those ideas.
From Reuters ● Apr. 8, 2019
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
That doesn’t persuade John Suher Sr, a 60-year-old millwright, who is furious about the lockout.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 4, 2016
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
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.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2021
"I'm listening this year," he said, promising a final decision in 2019 as a small audience of millwrights looked on from the shop floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2018
“Skilled craftsmen” - the millwrights, electricians and those who keep the saws sharp - “make very competitive wages, and that’s all I can say about that,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 13, 2017
Unlike air-traffic controllers—or millwrights, or miners, or tool-and-die makers—they can’t be replaced without ruining the product, because they are the product.
From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2013
Everybody came out—hay farmers, clerks, merchants, fishermen, crabbers, carpenters, loggers, net weavers, truck farmers, junk dealers, real estate brigands, hack poets, ministers, lawyers, sailors, squatters, millwrights, cedar rats, teamsters, plumbers, mushroom foragers, and holly pruners.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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