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- noun Plural form of
millhand .
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Examples
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Hindle Wakes by Stanley Houghton is about a couple of girls, millhands, in 1912, who meet up with the son of the mill owner.
I can live with this. reynardo 2001
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Half a dozen loggers were bellied up to the rough planks of the bar, and a little knot of millhands was grouped around the larger of the room's two tables, playing monte with Joshua Bolt, who was cleaning them out with his usual quiet efficiency.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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One of the millhands came up quietly, and tapped Aaron's shoulder.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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One of the millhands came up quietly, and tapped Aaron's shoulder.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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Half a dozen loggers were bellied up to the rough planks of the bar, and a little knot of millhands was grouped around the larger of the room's two tables, playing monte with Joshua Bolt, who was cleaning them out with his usual quiet efficiency.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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He wanted us to train these millhands and do it right now and not have any pussyfooting about it.
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BG: When you were working in the mill did you ever feel like you were -- you know, they always say the millhands, they called them "lint-heads" and things like this -- a second class citizen?
Oral History Interview with John Wesley Snipes, 1976 September 20 and November 20. Interview H-98. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By John Wesley Snipes John Wesley Snipes 1976
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Well, people looked down on millhands, farm people did.
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Even the talk between two slouch-hatted millhands, foreigners, failed at the time to strike Janet as having any significance.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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Even the talk between two slouch-hatted millhands, foreigners, failed at the time to strike Janet as having any significance.
The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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