Usage examples (34)

• “Eh, ma?” said a floury young mill-hand, and leant in passing over the garden gate.
• An account of Miss Larcom's youth up to the age of twenty-nine, which includes her experiences as a Lowell mill-hand.
• By the appearance of those she saw, she judged that the girls and women were mostly of the mill-hand class, and were from Middletown and
• Even the jaded mill-hand asks for the congested variety entertainments of Blackpool or of Douglas, rather than for the solitudes of shore and woodland.