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名詞

cotton mill (plural cotton mills)

1. A building housing spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from raw cotton.
   • 2019 October 23, Andy Coward, “New acclaim for Oldham Loop”, in Rail, page 58:

     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.

   • 1962, Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution 1789-1848, page 50:

     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.