steel mill

noun

1. a steelworks.

Word History and Origins

Origin of steel mill¹

First recorded in 1640–50

Example Sentences

His father worked in a local steel mill and his mother at a local auto supplier.

From Time

There he met William “Doug” Franklin, who grew up in the Valley, where his father worked in a local steel mill and his mother at a local auto supplier.

From Time

President Harry Truman’s decision to follow a wartime opinion preventing him from seizing control of privately owned steel mills is a high point in Breyer’s narrative.

From Vox

Nine years after the steel mill closed, she worries about air quality along the highway.

From Washington Post

In the fall of 2018, the wage for Amazon workers started at about $14 an hour, about a third of what rank-and-file workers had been making at the steel mill in its final years.

From ProPublica

In one ad blitz, former employees at a closed steel mill call Romney and Bain job destroyers and economic vampires.

From The Daily Beast

And so he cited Steel Dynamics, an Indiana steel mill once owned by Bain Capital.

From The Daily Beast

They relocated to St. Louis in 1977 with their first child in tow so that Todd could work as a manager at a steel mill.

From The Daily Beast

He first mentions visiting Georgetown, S.C., a former steel-mill town that, he says, lost jobs because of Bain Capital.

From The Daily Beast

They work in a vast rural factory that resembles an old steel mill and smells like molasses.

From The Daily Beast

Marsden afterwards sent Duaterra a steel mill to grind his wheat, which he received with no little joy.

From Project Gutenberg

But there is also a steel mill, much less expensive, requiring less labour, and yet quite sufficient for a family.

From Project Gutenberg

They have been replaced since then by the steel-mill, and then by the Davy lamp, and other safety lamps of various kinds.

From Project Gutenberg

The Indians gave us some corn, beans, and dried squashes; and we gave them a steel mill, with which they were much pleased.

From Project Gutenberg

A small, fully robotic, steel mill that could be set up and operated on the satellite.

From Project Gutenberg