Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that designs, builds, or repairs mills or mill machinery.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An engineer who designs, constructs, and erects mills, their motors, machinery, and appurtenances, particularly flouring-and grist-mills.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery
Examples
“(the term millwright means very little nowadays), and obtained from him”
“No one, Republican or Democrat, should hide who is visiting the White House. millwright”
“Isn't WAXMAN the moron who wants "Sex Gender Changes" to be covered procedures by law. millwright”
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“If we do not accept this contract, we will look bad to everyone, said UAW member William Coltrane , a Ford millwright.”
“He was a millwright for the Simpson Lumber Company in McCleary, and always on call if any of the machines there broke down.”
“You start at a low wage and you have to buy your own tools and then you get to where you are a millwright 5 years later but alot of people want the money now and can't wait so they take the piece work jobs and instead of going to school and getting a trade.”
“So that essentially means a millwright or any other trade, in order to finish a job, could do the work of an electrician, or tinner or hvac?”
“Carlino is working hard, as a common workman, with a millwright at Midhurst, that he may, in due time, be an accomplished engineer.”
“But part of it is his concern that a lifelong Detroit resident, die-hard American luxury car owner, and daughter of a Chevrolet millwright would abandon the Big Three and buy Japanese.”
“A millwright wrote me up and got paid for 4 hours labor as a result of it.”
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