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Expanse of calm water
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millpond
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Word definitions for millpond in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a pond formed by damming a stream to provide a head of water to turn a mill wheel
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
millpond \millpond\ n. a pond formed by damming a stream to provide a head of water to turn a mill wheel.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A pond or reservoir produced by damming a river or stream in order to provide a steady source of water for a millrace
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A man-made millpond with a splashing waterfall can be seen and heard from the rear rooms. ▪ All I had were some trout in the freezer by courtesy of the millpond . ▪ Although the wheel has gone, the millpond is well maintained ...
Usage examples of millpond.
The wind had dropped to not more than Force four and the seas, while far from being a millpond, had quietened to the extent that the San Andreas rarely rolled more than a few degrees when it did at all.
Beyond the islands, the open ocean was, as his father often said, as calm as a millpond.
There, Rienadre, Denalle, and Nylan struggled to remove the silty and clay-filled soil, at least enough to provide footings for the crude retaining wall that would, Nylan hoped, form the millpond.
Radiating outward from the manor-house and its fields and gardens and parks were zone after zone of agricultural and industrial compounds, the farms and the homes of the farmers over here, the factories over there, the mills and millponds, the barns, the stables, the workers’ quarters and the commercial sectors that served them, and everything else that went to make up the virtually self-sufficient economic unit that was a Great House.
Yet wights still roamed, haunting inglenooks and millponds, lurking beneath hearthstones, inhabiting wells.
They’ve got millponds behind dams, and overshot wheels with gear trains.
Apart from the matter of security, it would involve either moving the mill or a lot of digging of millponds and building of dams and spillways.
The motion-picture company had created a shallow but convincing millpond around it, then paid to restore the land after filming and to establish the current pocket park.