millwright

American  

[mil-rahyt] / ˈmɪlˌraɪt /

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.

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millwright British  

/ ˈmɪlˌraɪt /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of millwright

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.

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

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

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