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Milldam

noun
1.
Dam to make a millpond to provide power for a water mill.





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"Milldam" Quotes from Famous Books



... said Edward, "after getting a certain amount of knowledge, other knowledge comes very fast; it gathers like a snowball—or perhaps it would be better to illustrate the fact by a milldam. You know, when the water is low in the milldam, the miller cannot drive his wheel; but the moment the water comes up to a certain level it has force to work the mill. And so it is with knowledge; when once you get it up to a ...
— Handy Andy, Vol. 2 - A Tale of Irish Life • Samuel Lover
... loon (Colymbus glacialis) came, as usual, to moult and bathe in the pond, making the woods ring with his wild laughter before I had risen. At rumor of his arrival all the Milldam sportsmen are on the alert, in gigs and on foot, two by two and three by three, with patent rifles and conical balls and spyglasses. They come rustling through the woods like autumn leaves, at least ten men to one loon. ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester


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