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Grain grinder's power source
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millstream
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English mylestream ; see mill (n.1) + stream (n.).
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game , the Millstream is a wide stream that runs north to south through the Free City of Greyhawk . The stream emerges from underground, beneath the former home of Sir Bluto ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The water that runs through a millrace to power a mill.
Usage examples of millstream.
Oswald Brunies takes each one, even the most contemptible run of the millstream, between the thumb and forefinger of his left hand, holds it away from, then up to light, takes a magnifying glass secured by an elastic band from the breast pocket of his peat-brown and partly threadbare jacket, moves the glass on stretching elastic slowly and expertly into place between pebble and eye, then, elegantly and with full confidence in the elastic, lets the glass spring back into his breast pocket.
Ahead the rushing of the millstream was a faint thunder in the murky semidark.
Gorde on the other side of the millstream fell from fifty to thirty shillings, Mesewelle up the river fell by half and even Flesching farther away, where the hundred moots had been held, was almost as bad.
It was a broad, gravelly pool, scoured wide by the millstream and the weir, overhung by trees at the lower end.
The ripple under her forefoot sounded like the contented chuckle of a country millstream at a sleepy knot or two.
The engineer Vauban dammed the river here and sent it different ways, to make a moat around the fortified town: downstream of his beautiful bridge is a weir and a millstream and backwaters, and crooked streets through the seventeenth-century huddle, and the city fathers are busy restoring a nostalgic atmosphere with cobblestones and antique gas lamps, and rather pathetic corners of greenery.
They turned up the road past the car park, past the Millstream Hotel, then parked near The Berkeley Arms.
Jack as he pulls the cart--now, from the millstream, mostly uphill--back to her farm.
The ditch water, fed by a rivulet from the millstream, seemed shallow enough, but it would still be a cloying obstacle to men trying to assault the gaunt, rough-faced wall of the fort's enceinte.
The ditch water, fed by a rivulet from the millstream, seemed shallow enough, but it would still be a cloying obstacle to men trying to assault the gaunt, rough-faced wall of the forts enceinte.