cotton mill

Noun

Meaning

a textile mill for making cotton textiles

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cotton-mill

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Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science. Roger Bannister

I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot. Frances Mayes

Autobiography, p. 34 Andrew's father, William Carnegie, started off working in a cotton mill but would then earn money weaving and peddling linens. Source: Internet

He created the cotton mill which brought the production processes together in a factory, and he developed the use of power—first horse power and then water power —which made cotton manufacture a mechanised industry. Source: Internet

In 1830, James returned to Texas, ostensibly to build a cotton mill, but mainly to pursue his plan to acquire vast tracts of available land. Source: Internet

By 1854 King’s Roswell Manufacturing Company included a second cotton mill, run by a sixteen-foot overshot iron wheel. Source: Internet

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