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millwright

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Millwright \Mill"wright`\, n. A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A millwright is a craftsman or tradesman who installs, dismantles, repairs, reassembles, and moves machinery in factories, power plants, and construction sites. As the name suggests, the original function of a millwright was the construction of flour mills ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from mill (n.1) + wright .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a person who designed, erected and built mills and milling machinery

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery

Usage examples of millwright.

After them march the guilds and trades and trainbands with flying colours: coopers, bird fanciers, millwrights, newspaper canvassers, law scriveners, masseurs, vintners, trussmakers, chimneysweeps, lard refiners, tabinet and poplin weavers, farriers, Italian warehousemen, church decorators, bootjack manufacturers, undertakers, silk mercers, lapidaries, salesmasters, corkcutters, assessors of fire losses, dyers and cleaners, export bottlers, fellmongers, ticketwriters, heraldic seal engravers, horse repository hands, bullion brokers, cricket and archery outfitters, riddlemakers, egg and potato factors, hosiers and glovers, plumbing contractors.

He was not the millwright any longer, but a wanted man, who could be hanged three times over for his crimes.

When they were sitting together of an evening, pa would tell Hardy stories of his own boyhood in his native Ireland, and how he had been apprenticed to a millwright when he was ten years old.

When I was a boy, apprenticed to a millwright, he could make me check every measurement, study every piece of lumber we used.

Kindly, confused old Rarendon was taken into the old stables behind the mill, where the dwarven millwright allowed orphans of the Starn.

He and another guard named Marvin Meriwether who had been a faller like Tom for seven years and who had worked another seven as a millwright took the 4 a.

That was already in use, and the master millwright understood what was needed in the way of converting a gristmill to a fireseed mill almost at once.

At the age of seventeen he was apprenticed to a millwright near Macclesfield, and soon after completing his apprenticeship he set up in business for himself as a wheelwright at Leek, quickly becoming known for his ingenuity and skill in repairing all kinds of machinery.

Saw Mill and Grist Mill here on the Susquehannah, near his House, and has had a Millwright to view the Spot.

The millwrights and other trades were offering a premium on emigration, to induce their hands to go away.