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Definition of Cotton mill
1. Noun. A textile mill for making cotton textiles.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cotton Mill
Literary usage of Cotton mill
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Textile Industries of the United States: Including Sketches and Notices by William R. Bagnall (1893)
"As early as 1808, his grist-mill, standing near his saw-mill, he converted into
a small cotton-mill for carding and spinning cotton yarn. ..."
2. Cotton is King, and Pro-slavery Arguments: Comprising the Writings of by David Christy, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Thornton Stringfellow, Robert Goodloe Harper, James Henry Hammond, Samuel Adolphus Cartwright, Charles Hodge (1860)
"Emancipation in the United States begun—First Abolition Society organized— Progress
of Emancipation—First cotton mill—Exclusion of Slavery from NW ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1851)
"The foregoing estimates are not furnished by nor under the authority of the
managers or directors of the Cannelton cotton mill. Neither are they to be held ..."
4. History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 by John Thomas Scharf, Thompson Westcott (1884)
"They afterward erected a large cotton-mill farther up on the Schuylkill canal,
... Ann Dawson, in 1822, built a cotton-mill at the lower end of the canal, ..."
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