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mill tails

mill tails is the plural of mill tail.

Meaning of mill tail

Noun

mill tail (plural mill tails)

  1. The water that flows from a millwheel after turning it, or the channel in which the water flows.
    • In chalk streams the largest fish are found oftener in the mill-heads than in the mill tails.1858, Charles Kingsley, “Chalk Stream Studies”, in Fraser's Magazine

Questions about mill tails

What is mill tails the plural of?
Mill tails is the plural of mill tail.

Words near mill tails in the dictionary

  1. mill scale
  2. mill stream
  3. mill streams
  4. Mill Street
  5. mill tail
  6. mill tails
  7. mill teeth
  8. mill tooth
  9. Mill Valley
  10. mill wheel
  11. mill wheels

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