I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cotton mill (= factory where cotton is made into thread or cloth )
coffee mill
Mills, Heather
pepper mill
steel mill
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
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It has been claimed that the role of parental supervision continued into the early mills .
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The hours worked in the early cotton mills varied.
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It is altogether a more flamboyant and less forbidding building than the earlier mill .
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These mule spinners, assisted by women and children, were an elite group in the early textile mills .
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An early eighteenth-century water mill has also been re-erected at the site, with a twenty-foot wheel driving two pairs of millstones.
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It was one of the earliest cotton mills , built in 1785.
fulling
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It was recorded as a fulling mill , although it may at least inpart have been a grist mill.
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The site then consisted of a grist and two fulling mills .
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Water-powered fulling mills were not new; indeed they go back at least as far as the thirteenth century.
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Abingdon's trade had been waning for some time, with its fulling mills lying in ruins and unemployment rife by 1538.
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The combination of corn and fulling mills and dye house is encountered quite often around this period.
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A later reference of 1498 describes Fromebridge as corn, malt and fulling mills .
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In 1737 a fulling mill is recorded at Hawkshead Hill.
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Wiltshire fulling mills were nearly all controlled by the clothiers.
large
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This was one of the largest silk mills in the vicinity, although it started life as a corn mill.
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So were the proprietors of the largest pulp mill , who owned seven hundred feet of waterfront.
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Churchs found itself unable to compete any longer with the larger mills .
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Just south of Kirkstall Abbey is Armley Mills, once the world's largest woolen mill .
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The large mill owner's house is on the extreme right.
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Threats intensified and an organisation capable of attacking larger mills was built up.
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I turned into Hospital Street, past Plotnikoff's large saw mills , then came to Callender's bakery.
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It is said to have been at one time the world's largest spinning mill under one roof.
local
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Many of these local mills remain in name alone, having fallen into disuse and demolition.
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It is a good example of a typical local mill , of the type that was once commonplace in the region.
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Another local mill was known as Furnace Mill.
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It was run then by Henry Thomas, who owned this and a number of other local mills .
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The fact that it was larger than most local mills and within a few miles of Cirencester probably saved it.
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The Railway was built by a company formed mainly of local mill owners and opened in 1867.
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For 22 years he's worked at the same local newsprint mill .
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Up to 1939, the local flour mill was in operation and the last iron-rimmed wooden cartwheel was made the following year.
main
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The main mill had three water wheels and Spring Mill a single 20 foot wheel.
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Part of the main mill and the mill ponds have now gone.
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More money was invested and a steam engine installed in a purpose-built engine house attached to the main mill .
new
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Two new mills will begin operations in 1996.
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But new steel mills are starting up, which will boost supply.
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The water-power age produced hamlets, at the most small villages, gathered around a new mill .
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S., new steel mills are setting up shop.
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The new mill is their baby and they're looking forward to seeing it grow.
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But new steel mills are starting up, which some analysts expect will boost supply and depress prices over the next year.
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New weaving sheds were built in 1912 and a new spinning mill in 1951.
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The sites in Maine and Wisconsin selected for the new mills were far from ideal.
old
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A further three were to be built at the old carding mill at a gross rental of £10 perannum.
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Sure, they did need to close down some of the old mills .
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One restaurants is by the shore, another on top of a hill in an old sugar mill .
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Jeri and I got back in the car and drove south, past shrimp stands and abandoned old sugar mills .
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Considerable work was carried out at the old carding mill .
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Other engineering and light industries are filling many of the old mills and clothing factories.
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The old mills just stood there, quiet, closed, rusting away.
small
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Previously, most local grain was ground in the many small mills around the city and outlying areas.
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Ayliffe's Mill is an interesting reminder that not all of the small rural corn mills perished early in the century.
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Clearly the smaller mills were becoming uneconomic.
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On the far side of the village was a small water mill , probably used for grinding corn.
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This is a survivor of the many small country mills , the majority of which have long disappeared.
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This effectively shut down many of the smaller mills , such as many of those along the Carrant Brook.
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There was once a small water mill at Low Catton.
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Many of the smaller cloth mills were unable to plough sufficient money into such modernisation schemes, so fell by the wayside.
spinning
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In an adjoining spinning mill there is a fine collection of early spinning machinery and power looms.
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There are two group spinning mills based nearby.
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New weaving sheds were built in 1912 and a new spinning mill in 1951.
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The scribbling and spinning mills which were erected in the river valleys soon attracted workers' houses alongside them.
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It is said to have been at one time the world's largest spinning mill under one roof.
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The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
steel
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Soviet steel mills need 346,000 tonnes of coking coal a day but are getting only 200,000.
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Which steel mills are linked with each tinplate works?
woollen
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Where what is now a carriage museum was once a woollen mill where the red shirts for Garibaldi's army were made.
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Down below is Porth-y-Rhaw Bay, once the site of a woollen mill and a lime kiln.
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Several silk mills were set up around the Chalford Valley, but the majority made use of the then-vacant woollen mills.
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Why did the factory owners avoid the main valley of the River Aire for their woollen mills and towns?
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They are mostly of brick, unlike the woollen mills of Yorkshire, which are nearly always of stone.
■ NOUN
building
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The mill buildings house a museum of old implements and materials associated with corn production and milling.
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Ramsay ensconced himself in the upper storey of the mill building , where he could gain as wide a view as possible.
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The mill buildings themselves tower over Tewkesbury and can be seen for many miles around.
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Following the end of cloth-making, the mill buildings were let out to a number of tenants, providing some employment.
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The drive is transmitted into the adjacent mill building which houses two complete sets of grinding gear and allied crushers, etc.
cloth
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Henceforth the Painswick cloth mills gradually closed in the face of competition.
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By 1729, it had become a cloth mill worked as tenant by Edward Peach.
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As one of the few Gloucestershire cloth mills still in operation, may it long continue.
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Some cloth mills were demolished and others were converted for alternative uses.
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Many of the smaller cloth mills were unable to plough sufficient money into such modernisation schemes, so fell by the wayside.
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A cloth mill for many years, it was converted to corn.
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It had its own brickworks, cloth mill and farms, and was largely self-sufficient.
corn
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The former corn mill is owned by Bristol City Museum and is open to the public.
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Quite possibly it was a corn mill partially converted for fulling.
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This was one of the largest silk mills in the vicinity, although it started life as a corn mill.
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Probably the greatest number were always corn mills , those more distant being used to provide a steady income.
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It has remained a corn mill throughout its working life, having had no known connection with the wool trade.
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The name actually derives from a corn mill , recorded on the site in 1620, belonging to William Gunne.
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Ayliffe's Mill is an interesting reminder that not all of the small rural corn mills perished early in the century.
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Baked in a kiln at the old corn mill , the filling was made from mutton and fowl.
cotton
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The next stop was Bury in Lancashire, where home was a disused cotton mill .
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In California it was the cotton mill .
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Then came Mr Jedidiah Strutt, who built a cotton mill on the Derwent and shortly afterwards three more.
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The work of Wordsworth came into existence at the same time as the growing desperation in the cotton mills .
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They also destroyed roads, power lines, and sugar and cotton mills over a wide area.
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Ralph had no interest in business matters, which was evident at the cotton mill this morning.
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Before the coming of the cotton mill there were few opportunities for children to make a steady monetary contribution to family earnings.
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The ward hums the way I beard a cotton mill hum once when the football team played a high school in California.
flour
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At some point, the mill eventually passed to George Ford and was converted into a substantial flour mill.
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A flour mill was completed about May I, located on the creek.
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A weatherboarded flour mill , it was originally supported on open timberwork, but this has been enclosed within a brick roundhouse.
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If you have a flour mill at home, you have the potential for the best bread of all.
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Healing later left Abbey Mill, his new large steam powered Borough flour mills clearly of much greater importance.
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She paused by the old flour mill , another landmark of her childhood.
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During the 1780s he was manager and principal promoter, as well as builder and architect, of the Albion flour mill at Blackfriars.
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The trotting pony overtook a slow-moving cart piled high with sacks of dry-smelling wheat for a flour mill .
grist
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It was recorded as a fulling mill , although it may at least inpart have been a grist mill.
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Until then the grist mill existed, but presumably it was then demolished or converted.
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In addition, a grist mill was now definitely in existence, having been built, or possibly rebuilt, during the 1780s.
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It had two fulling stocks, a gig mill and in addition, a grist mill, not an uncommon combination.
house
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The mill is stone built and adjoins the mill house .
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Externally, it is little altered, the mill house and mill now forming an elegant dwelling and farm.
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An elegant mill house adjoins the mill, as do several barns, all constructed of mellowed local stone.
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The adjacent mill house still survives.
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The tailrace empties through a 100 yard tunnel that rejoins the stream after running under the mill house .
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It must have been rebuilt on many occasions, the present building and adjoining mill house dating from around 1726.
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The Lower Mill was a stone building, as was the substantial mill house .
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There was formerly a mill house alongside but this was demolished in 1936.
owner
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The railway and the quarries were the property of two brothers called McConnel, who were mill owners from Lancashire.
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Niklaus Andreas Lauda was born the son of a Viennese paper mill owner on 22 February 1949.
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Five mill owners in Lewis nevertheless spun yarn woven by the crofters.
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The Railway was built by a company formed mainly of local mill owners and opened in 1867.
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There had been a number of bankruptcies, and several mill owners left the trade.
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The neo-Renaissance height and grandeur were added by a mill owner , Odkolek.
paper
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The recent closures of the paper mill and the aluminium smelter at Invergordon lend weight to this argument.
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Faint news of the whistle from the nearby paper mill broadcast from the hillsides.
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There has been a paper mill on its site since the Tudor period.
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Niklaus Andreas Lauda was born the son of a Viennese paper mill owner on 22 February 1949.
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No mention was made of the fact that the New York Times had major interests in four paper mills .
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Jim also works in the Donahue paper mill , the same one as Gary.
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It was later converted to a paper mill .
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Within a few years, the last of the Forest's paper mills ceased operations.
pond
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The mill pond still existed during the 1950s, but has now been filled in.
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The mill pond is still maintained in good order although it is smaller, formerly extending right up to the back wall.
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To aid drainage of the area, the Leadon has been culverted, so much of the mill pond is dry.
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Within a few years of closure, the mill pond was filled in and much of the mill's machinery removed.
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Part of the main mill and the mill ponds have now gone.
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Much of the water control equipment and the mill pond embankments have not survived.
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The mill pond no longer exists, its place now taken by two fast-flowing streams.
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The yard was cleared, the mill pond dug out and an extensive programme of rebuilding and renovation carried out.
pulp
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But now they face a battle to save another from being stripped of trees for a paper and pulp mill .
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But that evening, pulp mill workers crept beneath the building and bored through the floor and into the barrels stored there.
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This land, and other former forest land, is being planted with eucalyptus to supply pulp mills .
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Launched with so much promise, hope, and cash, the pulp mill venture turned into a debacle.
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So were the proprietors of the largest pulp mill , who owned seven hundred feet of waterfront.
rumor
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Beyond that, they let the rumor mill dominate.
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Somebody better call Toronto and get the rumor mill going again.
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The rumor mill is churning again.
rumour
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The rumour mill , however, is full of likely failures.
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Hot off the rumour mill: Cypress Semiconductor Corp is now seriously talking about Alpha.
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This year the Treasury rumour mill has been working overtime.
site
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The first mill site is near Highnam.
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The local kids went to a tiny one-room schoolhouse in a shack that still stands next to the old mill site .
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Occasionally a mill site may be recognised.
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All but a hundred of these mill sites can still be accounted for.
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Following the Suppression, mill sites came into other hands, many being re-used time and time again.
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On the Worcestershire Stour, ten mill sites have been removed in as many years.
textile
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A textile mill developed natural fibres for special bedding to promote Kim's longevity.
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It's a growing town - because of the textile mills -but not growing in virtue, that I can tell you.
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She survived by working in a textile mill and receiving supplementary welfare.
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We're stuck for some ideas about the workings of a textile mill in the story.
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From the 1760s to the 1830s, steam engines, textile mills , and the Enlightenment produced the Industrial Revolution.
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There, 50 or so textile mills produce what is widely acknowledged to be the finest wool cloth in the world.
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Here we illustrated numerous dramatic conversions of warehouses and textile mills whose open-plan layouts made them adaptable for virtually any purpose.
town
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If she lived in a mill town , the choice was more or less made for her.
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Manchester would be a mill town , not a spa.
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It has been a dying mill town .
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The mill town replaced the farming town, and thus the forest returned.
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He was also approachable to folks in his hometown of Kannapolis, a rural mill town .
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This is the only adult literacy center in an impoverished mill town which is home to 80, 000 people.
water
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At one time South Cave had a water mill , and a windmill.
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We had walked hand in hand in the dark all the way to the water mill .
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The water mill was sited at Mill beck and it continued in use until the 1860s.
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Above and right: The home-made filter unit again makes use of planting baskets, and is disguised by the water mill .
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On the far side of the village was a small water mill , probably used for grinding corn.
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The church of St Michael and all Angels is on a ridge overlooking the river and the old water mill .
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An early eighteenth-century water mill has also been re-erected at the site, with a twenty-foot wheel driving two pairs of millstones.
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There are the remains of a medieval stone-built water mill on the stream below.
worker
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He was older than Miss Harker and he didn't look like a mill worker , nor yet a wealthy man.
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The study found higher rates of lung, nasal and laryngeal cancer among miners and mill workers .
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But that evening, pulp mill workers crept beneath the building and bored through the floor and into the barrels stored there.
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The teacher stayed with the mill workers at the company boardinghouse.
■ VERB
build
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His forefathers had built the mills , and it hadn't been a particularly easy life.
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It said it would build a rail mill but wanted concessions.
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Then came Mr Jedidiah Strutt, who built a cotton mill on the Derwent and shortly afterwards three more.
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At the top were the lawns and grand columned homes built by the Sutherlands, who had also built the mill .
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It was the same man who built Sovovy mill in neo-Gothic style.
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But the man who built the mill had saved the town by renaming it.
close
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Rescue close for historic mill Dangerfield Mills at Hawick was once famous for its tweed.
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So Harvester tried to close the mill indirectly.
grind
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Flour is ground at the mill and can be bought form the mill shop.
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I go with my friend Alice Abau Elia to the grinding mill nearest to her home.
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At the grinding mill , a line of women sit in the dirt behind the bags of maize.
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There is a shortage of grinding mills at present.
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They can be ground in a mill , but should first be roasted in a frying pan.
operate
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Then it was in the hands of the Foley family, who were also operating Guns mill at Abenhall.
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In 1988, Nucor operated seven steel mills at four sites.
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The last miller was Mr William Stallworthy, who operated the mill from 1900 until his retirement in 1977.
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Wathen continued to operate the mill up to 1818, but by 1820, Joseph and Obadiah Paul Wathen were in control.
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Grist and Tabram operated the mill later in its life.
power
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Both have powered mills , but the Carrant Brook was much more heavily utilised.
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Further upstream towards Brockworth, the brook also powered a corn mill , but of Brockworth Mill there is now little trace.
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This formerly powered a number of mills , involved in some way with the cloth trade.
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Healing later left Abbey Mill, his new large steam powered Borough flour mills clearly of much greater importance.
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This powered a mill at Ruspidge near Cinderford.
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Under their control, a huge new mill pond was constructed, to feed the five water wheels that powered the mill.
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The Blackpool Brook also powered the old mill at Nibley.
run
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It's run of the mill .
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It could keep running the mill as if it still owned it.
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For part of its life, the site was run as two separate mills , known as the Abbey and Town Mills.
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Tubbs and Lewis ran the mill for some time but finally ceased production there.
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They worked the mill for five years, after which Edward Palling, who also ran Brookhouse mill, took over.
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Lakes and Mountain holidays are very different to run of the mill summer holidays.
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The tailrace empties through a 100 yard tunnel that rejoins the stream after running under the mill house.
sell
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But you know we have been talking about selling the mills because we need money.
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The Sutherlands had sold off the mill and its surrounding holdings to absentee landlords, multi-national corporations, outsiders.
work
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Water also came down to the mill from a cutting, possibly working a mill wheel.
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He bootlegged whiskey, pumped gas, worked in a steel mill handling hot wire, stole hubcaps.
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By the 1930s, Wyman had been replaced by Charles Dee, who worked the mill throughout the decade.
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I began to work in steel mills when I was seventeen to support my education.
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She survived by working in a textile mill and receiving supplementary welfare.
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They worked the mill for five years, after which Edward Palling, who also ran Brookhouse mill, took over.
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His parents were indeed immigrants and they worked in the lumber mills of Arcata, California.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(all) grist to the mill
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Humans had become mere technical grist to the mill like any base metal.
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In fact, all the events' of daily life are grist to the mill of these popular singers.
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This is all grist to the mill of orthodox social democratic analyses of crime.
the rumour mill
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Hot off the rumour mill: Cypress Semiconductor Corp is now seriously talking about Alpha.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a lumber mill
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an old mill with a ruined water-wheel
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The movie has earned almost $2 mill in the first weekend.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An entirely new idea for the running of mills and the organising of the mill-workers.
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Last week some one had laced the coffee in the mill with arsenic.
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Taylor's map of 1777 shows four mills on its lower section, with a number of others further upstream.
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The former corn mill is owned by Bristol City Museum and is open to the public.
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The missions were not merely churches but entire working communities, with farms, blacksmiths, flour mills and residences.
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They even lost two weeks of wages because the paychecks bounced without warning when the mill suddenly closed in March 1980.
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Writers of the time talked about how factories and mills dehumanized workers.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
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People milled about casually, talking amongst themselves, eating and drinking.
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Our small cortège milled about in the courtyard near the large double-barred gate of the palace.
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Startled, the pack had run for the shelter of the trees, where they had milled about uncertainly.
around
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It was a dark overcast day; the people milling around all looked grey.
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Everyone white was milling around in the road, and he had to watch out for children.
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Humans were milling around the base of the Ship.
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People have been coming in and milling around to see if we actually have it.
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Here, milling around the caviare, dwells all the menace and the glamour of the Unseen World.
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There were people milling around on the streets.
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Two days later mobs milled around as William Lloyd Garrison began to speak.
■ NOUN
crowd
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The crowd milled around chatting and exchanging tips, hawking and spitting, slurping tea and placing bets.
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A large crowd milled there despite the cold wind which lashed face and hand.
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Simon had disappeared into the crowd still milling about the hall, and fitzAlan was standing before her.
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As we explored the district we came upon a crowd milling on the pavement.
people
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By 11am 1,000 people were milling around Parliament Square, keeping off the grass, and greeting old friends.
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There were people milling around on the streets.
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It was a dark overcast day; the people milling around all looked grey.
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The crack house lust off Kelly Street was crowded, people milling around outside.
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Embarrassed, I waited. People milled past, skirting me as though I were bad luck.
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He looked around. People were milling .
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Chesarynth gripped it convulsively at the strange sight of people milling around.
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When I arrived, there were lots of people milling around and shouting.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Harrison joined a crowd of about 5000 milling outside the radio station.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In a conference room, there is a thirty-foot table milled from a single piece of green malachite.
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Leeming was standing in the middle of the third car, surrounded by sheep who milled round his feet.
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Others were milling around on the grass to no apparent purpose.
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The carbon in pulp process uses higher grade ore which is crushed, milled and mixed with chemical solutions in large tanks.
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The curds of two days' cheesemaking are mixed together before being milled and pressed.
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The guests milled round in confusion.
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Then, I switched to old, soft aluminum, milled from a single block.
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They milled together and dismounted, the two Myrcans immediately running to the rear to intercept the pursuit.