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mill stream

mill stream is the alternative form of millstream.

Meaning of millstream

Noun

millstream (plural millstreams)

  1. The water that runs through a millrace to power a mill.
    • [W]hile he was away Hinzelmann began suddenly to clapper in the ladies' chamber like a stork, and then said, "Maid Anne, you much go look for your things to-day in the mill-stream."1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 53

Forms of mill stream

pluralmill streams

Questions about mill stream

What is mill stream the alternative form of?
Mill stream is the alternative form of millstream.

Words near mill stream in the dictionary

  1. mill rate
  2. mill rates
  3. mill run
  4. mill runs
  5. mill scale
  6. mill stream
  7. mill streams
  8. Mill Street
  9. mill tail
  10. mill tails
  11. mill teeth

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