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millpond
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
millpond
noun
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▪ 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 and is home to a great assortment of wildlife.
▪ In one poem William Ix said that a closely guarded married woman was as bad a prospect as a millpond without fish.
▪ The grass seemed to flow on for ever like a millpond sea.
▪ The islands rose sheer out of a millpond sea, pillars of white limestone with ochre splotches capped in crinkly green.
▪ The week after, there was a millpond under a vivid blue sky - with matching hammerhead shark cruising the northern limits.
▪ This time a few, reluctant drops spattered the millpond surface but did not disturb it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
millpond

millpond \millpond\ n. a pond formed by damming a stream to provide a head of water to turn a mill wheel.

Wiktionary
millpond

n. A pond or reservoir produced by damming a river or stream in order to provide a steady source of water for a millrace

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millpond

n. a pond formed by damming a stream to provide a head of water to turn a mill wheel

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.