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nouna factory for producing cotton fabrics, thread, etc. Origin of cotton millFirst recorded in 1785–95 Words nearby cotton millcotton-fiber embolism, cotton flannel, cotton gin, cotton grass, cotton gum, cotton mill, cottonmouth, cotton on, cotton picker, cottonpickin', cotton-picking Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for cotton millAt a very early age he was placed to work in a cotton-mill, in his native town, as a common hand. Presidential Candidates:|D. W. Bartlett It is in great demand for cotton-mill machinery, turnery handles and forms. Forest Trees of Illinois|Fuller George D. Down in the cotton-mill districts of the South are scores of men who never, from one year to the next, do a stroke of work. What eight million women want|Rheta Childe Dorr I find that even this light composition demands a certain degree of silence, and I might as well live in a cotton-mill. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6|John Gibson Lockhart
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