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 

• MILL-HAND (noun)

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)