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MILL-HAND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mill-hand mean?
• MILL-HAND (noun)
The noun MILL-HAND has 1 sense:
1. a workman in a mill or factory
Familiarity information: MILL-HAND used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A workman in a mill or factory
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
factory worker; mill-hand
Hypernyms ("mill-hand" is a kind of...):
working man; working person; workingman; workman (an employee who performs manual or industrial labor)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mill-hand"):
mill-girl (a girl who works in a mill)
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