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• n  a workman in a mill or factory

• When a vicar in Yorkshire, Baring-Gould fell in love with a mill-hand, sent her to school, married her, wrote (as a novel) the story of his romance (Through Fire and Flame .
• Jim was a wiry, passionate young mill-hand who had defended Andrew all his life.
• He worked as a mill-hand, a shoemaker, a newshawk, tried farming, then teaching.

• factory worker