Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The fast-moving stream of water that drives a mill wheel.
- noun The channel for the water that drives a mill wheel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The current of water that drives a mill-wheel, or the channel in which it flows from the dam to the mill.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a channel from a millpond to a millwheel, to provide the water current that turns the millwheel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
mill race .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a channel for the water current that turns a millwheel
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Examples
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The millrace is a choke of earth, a whisper of weeds.
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Just above the millrace was a quiet pool under the bank where great, fragrant water-lilies floated upon the surface.
A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall Amy Bell Marlowe
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Last week, over a meadow by the millrace, one exited left, pursued by a crow, issuing an agitated stream of peeps.
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In the morning he discovered that Mouse had been right—the boat still bobbed like a cork in a millrace, but the air was clear, the sea sparkled, and Edoran was actually hungry!
Crown of Earth Hilari Bell 2009
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In the morning he discovered that Mouse had been right—the boat still bobbed like a cork in a millrace, but the air was clear, the sea sparkled, and Edoran was actually hungry!
Crown of Earth Hilari Bell 2009
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On the Saturday evening she threw herself from the footbridge into the millrace.
Rosmersholm 2008
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No. You must solve the riddle of the millrace as your conscience will allow you — if you have any conscience still left.
Rosmersholm 2008
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In the nineteenth century, the rivière la chute was made into a millrace.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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On the Saturday evening she threw herself from the footbridge into the millrace.
Rosmersholm 2008
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No. You must solve the riddle of the millrace as your conscience will allow you — if you have any conscience still left.
Rosmersholm 2008
ofravens commented on the word millrace
Water in the millrace, through a sluice of stone,
plunges headlong into that black pond
from "Winter Landscape, with Rooks," by Sylvia Plath
March 26, 2008