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mill dams

mill dams is the plural of mill dam.

Meaning of mill dam

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

Questions about mill dams

What is mill dams the plural of?
Mill dams is the plural of mill dam.

Words near mill dams in the dictionary

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

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