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Millpond

noun
1.
A pond formed by damming a stream to provide a head of water to turn a mill wheel.





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"Millpond" Quotes from Famous Books



... were seen passing over at a great height on their long journeys, and we admired their clear bugle notes, but they seldom visited any of the lakes in our neighborhood, so seldom that when they did it was talked of for years. One was shot by a blacksmith on a millpond with a long-range Sharp's rifle, and many of the neighbors went far ...
— The Story of My Boyhood and Youth • John Muir
... capital at upsetting boats just touching the beach; the boat is broadside on and the occupants in the water in a second. To-day the groundswell was more active, the waves closer together, not having had time to forget the force of the extinct gale. Yet the sea looked calm as a millpond—just the ...
— The Open Air • Richard Jefferies
... to Mary Hallowell, during these days: "I am more tired than ever before and know that I am draining the millpond too low each day to be filled quite up during the night, but I am having fine audiences of thinking men and women. Oh, if we could but make our meetings ring like those of the anti-slavery people, wouldn't the world hear us? But to do that we must ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper


Words linked to "Millpond" :   pool, pond


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