Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cotton mill

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.06 in modern English

Syllables: cot-ton mill
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A building housing spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from raw cotton.

Example Sentences

"Oldham is a typical Lancashire former mill town, with the town and its surrounding area once dominated by the cotton manufacturing industry. A number of the large cotton mills still stand in the area, although most are now either in use for other purposes, or stand empty and derelict."
"In the factories, were the problem of labor discipline was more urgent, it was often found more convenient to employ the tractable (and cheaper) women and children: out of all workers in the English cotton mills in 1834-47 about one-quarter were adult men, over half women and girls and the balance, boys below the age of eighteen."

Inflected Forms

cotton mills (plural)

Questions

What does cotton mill mean?: A building housing spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from raw cotton.

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