powder mill
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of powder mill
First recorded in 1640–50
Example Sentences
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Born in Texas, he worked in a Du Pont powder mill at 22�� an hour a short 20 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was the second construction contract to be let in 1940's defense emergency for a powder mill to be operated by private industry, owned by the Government.
From Time Magazine Archive
They changed the 149-year-old company from a successful powder mill in Wilmington, Del., into a chemical cornucopia.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is on the plan of a powder mill.
From The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) by Jefferson, Thomas
By day and night, to work my will, It pounded like a powder mill; And marking how the world went round A theory of theft it found.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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