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单词 millman
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millmann.

Brit. /ˈmɪlmən/, U.S. /ˈmɪlm(ə)n/
Inflections: Plural millmen.
Forms: see mill n.1 and man n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mill n.1, man n.1
Etymology: < mill n.1 + man n.1 Compare Middle Dutch molenman (Dutch (archaic) molenman), Middle Low German mȫlenman, Old Icelandic mylnumaðr.
(a) A man who has charge of and works a mill of any kind. (b) A man employed in a mill.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mills > [noun] > one who operates
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > industrial worker > in mill
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1551–2 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 6 §6 Yf..any Clothe..prove..thoroughe the defaulte or negligence of the Milman or otherwise to be full of holes [etc.].
1687 in W. R. Scott Rec. Sc. Cloth Manufactory New Mills (1905) 159 James Marr to pay the milnmans house rent.
1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) I. vii. 136 The whole population of Parker's Falls, consisting of shopkeepers, mistresses of boarding houses, factory girls, millmen, and schoolboys.
1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 501 You cannot ask the mill-man to vary the weight or speed of his stamps.
1885 Manch. Examiner 25 Mar. 5/4 The puddlers and millmen..resolved..to give their services, for a week, gratuitously.
1950 J. W. Day Marshland Adventure xiii. 149 You may..see no house but the lonely cottage of a marshman or a millman.
1993 Amer. Hist. Rev. 98 246/2 Textile millmen Amos Lawrence and Edward Atkinson..exemplified the rage for association by starting and funding a remarkable array of activist institutions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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