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mill-race

mill-race is the alternative form of mill race.

Meaning of mill race

Noun

mill race (plural mill races)

  1. A fast-running water-filled channel diverted from a river or stream used to drive the millwheel in a watermill.
    • She liked the cold water of the mill-race, and without shame or hesitation would throw off her frock and float like a mermaid, almost invisible, in the watery element.1935, Benedict Read, The Green Child, Capuchin, published 2010, page 36
    Synonyms:
    lade, mill lade, millrun, watergang

Forms of mill-race

pluralmill-races

Questions about mill-race

What is mill-race the alternative form of?
Mill-race is the alternative form of mill race.

Words near mill-race in the dictionary

  1. mill-drill
  2. mill-drills
  3. mill-hunky
  4. mill-leat
  5. mill-leats
  6. mill-race
  7. mill-races
  8. mill-sixpence
  9. mill-sixpences
  10. mill-stone
  11. mill-stones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mill-race (page history and authors); mill race (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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