silk mill

collocation in English

meaningsofsilkandmill

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silk
noun
uk
/sɪlk/us
/sɪlk/
a delicate, soft type of cloth made from a thread produced by silkworms, or the ...
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mill
noun[C]
uk
/mɪl/us
/mɪl/
a building where grain is crushed ...
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(Definition ofsilkandmillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is true that it has been asilkmillonly for the last month or two.
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In the greatsilkmilllockout, workers were locked out and starved back to work.
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Some 150 years ago, there was a long dispute in asilkmillin my constituency.
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It housed asilkmill, and later clothing manufacturers, until its conversion.
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In the past, it contained asilkmilland a coal mining industry.
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One was asilkmillfor a short period, and one was a paper mill, with the rest milling corn or producing flour.
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A dormitory for the girls who worked on thesilkmillwas also built at that time.
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In the past, the borough had foundries and machine shops, asilkmill, car works and classification yards.
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The formersilkmillsite is now a housing estate.
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It was 4 bays wide and attached by a two-bay link to thesilkmillover the wagon entrance to the court-yard.
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In the 1920s thesilkmillwas built.
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The factory began operations in a building that once housed asilkmill.
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The group set out building a factory on the site of thesilkmill, which had only been excavated in the 1830s before being abandoned.
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Managing the textile production in thesilkmillwas the next project entrusted to him.
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In the early years of the twentieth century, it had coal mines, a foundry, drill factories, flour and feed mills, a canning factory, and asilkmill.
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It was built as asilkmillin 1874 and there was milling on this site for many years before it was turned into a hotel.
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It was probably the largest survivingsilkmillin the north-west region in the 1970s and had a unique combination of silk and cotton mills on one site.
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Three of the silk mills are forced to close down.
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Formerly used for silk mills, it is now used for micro-hydroelectric production, and is a popular spot for canoeing.
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