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milltail

milltail is the alternative form 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

Forms of milltail

pluralmilltails

Questions about milltail

What is milltail the alternative form of?
Milltail is the alternative form of mill tail.

Words near milltail in the dictionary

  1. millstone round one's neck
  2. millstones
  3. millstream
  4. millstreams
  5. Millstreet
  6. milltail
  7. milltails
  8. Millthorpe
  9. Milltimber
  10. Milltown
  11. Milltown Malbay

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