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milldam

milldam is the alternative form 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

Forms of milldam

pluralmilldams

Questions about milldam

What is milldam the alternative form of?
Milldam is the alternative form of mill dam.

Words near milldam in the dictionary

  1. millclapper
  2. millclappers
  3. millcourse
  4. millcourses
  5. Milldale
  6. milldam
  7. milldams
  8. milldust
  9. mille
  10. mille graines
  11. Mille Lacs

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