The millwright used to be a busy man here and there in the villages, but the railways take the wheat to the steam mills of cities, and where the water-mills yet run, ironwork has supplanted wood.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
They were all standing behind the counter of a small store that had been hired in the village-the three girls at least, for Aunt Letty had already gone to the glebe, and Herbert was still down at the "water privilege," talking to a millwright and a carpenter.
"Castle Richmond"
Anthony Trollope
Abraham Darby was a Quaker and millwright who made large cooking pots of iron, which cost less than bronze.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly