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mill head

mill head noun: the head of water employed to turn a millwheel.

Noun

mill head (plural mill heads)

  1. The head of water employed to turn a millwheel.
    • The smooth mill-head was alive with rising trout1848, [Charles Kingsley], Yeast: A Problem. […], London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1851, →OCLC

Forms of mill head

pluralmill heads

Questions about mill head

What does mill head mean?
Mill head means the head of water employed to turn a millwheel.
What part of speech is mill head?
Mill head is a noun.
What is the plural of mill head?
The plural of mill head is mill heads.

Words near mill head in the dictionary

  1. mill drill
  2. mill drills
  3. Mill End
  4. mill fever
  5. mill fevers
  6. mill head
  7. mill heads
  8. Mill Hill
  9. mill hunky
  10. mill moth
  11. mill moths

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