Wiktionary
millhand
n. A worker in a mill
Usage examples of "millhand".
He had always wanted me to be something better than the millhand he was, and God knows the circus was a good many cuts above that.
If you'd told me in 1893 that I'd be listening to a woman, an upper-class woman, not a whore or a millhand, mind you, spewing filth and subversive .