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mill dam

UK/ˈmɪldam/

mill dam noun: a dam constructed across a river or stream to raise the water level so that it can turn a millwheel; also, the millpond so created.

Noun

mill dam (plural mill dams)

  1. A dam constructed across a river or stream to raise the water level so that it can turn a millwheel; also, the millpond so created.
    • the which, once being brust, / Like to a great Mill-damb forth fiercely gusht, / And powred out of her infernall sinke / Most ugly filth […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • He looked so joyy and so good— / While fishing in the milldam-water, / I laughed to see him as he stood, / And dreamt not of the miller's daughter.1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Miller’s Daughter”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 33

Forms of mill dam

pluralmill dams
alternative formmilldam
alternative formmill-dam

Questions about mill dam

What does mill dam mean?
Mill dam means a dam constructed across a river or stream to raise the water level so that it can turn a millwheel; also, the millpond so created.
What part of speech is mill dam?
Mill dam is a noun.
How do you pronounce mill dam?
Mill dam is pronounced /ˈmɪldam/ (UK).
What is the plural of mill dam?
The plural of mill dam is mill dams.

Words near mill dam in the dictionary

  1. mill car
  2. mill cinder
  3. mill course
  4. mill courses
  5. Mill Creek
  6. mill dam
  7. mill dams
  8. mill drill
  9. mill drills
  10. Mill End
  11. mill fever

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