Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that designs, builds, or repairs mills or mill machinery.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An engineer who designs, constructs, and erects mills, their motors, machinery, and appurtenances, particularly flouring-and grist-mills.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a person who
designed ,erected andbuilt mills andmilling machinery
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery
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Examples
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(the term millwright means very little nowadays), and obtained from him
Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 Various
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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.
Ford Contract on Edge Mike Ramsey 2011
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No one, Republican or Democrat, should hide who is visiting the White House. millwright
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Isn't WAXMAN the moron who wants "Sex Gender Changes" to be covered procedures by law. millwright
House Democrats agree on health-care position, chairman says 2009
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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.
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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?
The Truth Revealed! 2008
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He was a millwright for the Simpson Lumber Company in McCleary, and always on call if any of the machines there broke down.
In the Still of the Night Ann Rule 2010
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He was a millwright for the Simpson Lumber Company in McCleary, and always on call if any of the machines there broke down.
In the Still of the Night Ann Rule 2010
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He was a millwright for the Simpson Lumber Company in McCleary, and always on call if any of the machines there broke down.
In the Still of the Night Ann Rule 2010
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Carlino is working hard, as a common workman, with a millwright at Midhurst, that he may, in due time, be an accomplished engineer.
ruzuzu commented on the word millwright
"As the name suggests, the original function of a millwright was the construction of flour mills, sawmills, paper mills and fulling mills powered by water or wind, mostly of wood with a limited number of metal parts. Since both of these structures originated from antiquity, millwrighting could be considered, arguably, as one of the oldest engineering trades and the forerunner of the modern mechanical engineer.
In modern usage, a millwright is engaged with the erection of machinery. This includes such tasks as leveling, aligning and installing machinery on foundations or base plates and setting, leveling and aligning electric motors or other power sources such as turbines with the equipment, which millwrights typically connect with some type of coupling."
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August 4, 2017