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Milldam   Listen
noun
Milldam  n.  A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Milldam" Quotes from Famous Books



... moment, and part the heavy hanging branches, and look, where the water falls over a high black wall, into a sombre pool, shut in by fantastic rocks, and shaded from all sunshine by a dense fringe of trees. This is the milldam, and the pond above is no natural one, but the enforced repose and outspreading of a merry brown brook, which now shows its true nature, and escaping from the gloomy pool, runs scolding and foaming down through a wilderness of rocks and trees. You cannot follow it there,—though I ...
— Queen Hildegarde • Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards



Words linked to "Milldam" :   dyke, dike, dam



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