What is "millrace"

Usage examples of "millrace".

Despairing, he was about to turn back and rush around the mill to peer downriver, when he remembered from his early reconnaissance of the place that the old structure had a walled millrace where the Frakes kept several of their boats hidden.

With the Kalashnikov to his eye, he caught sight of her head drifting toward the millrace grate that had snagged a wide apron of flotsam.

Perhaps without the child he could fight the current and the slippery millrace wall and make it that far.

Someday, I intended to use the small stream for my own millrace, and cut and season my own wood.

I tied Gairloch to the post by the millrace, then walked down toward the mill, glancing at the water as it churned in the narrow stone trough toward the undershot waterwheel.

Made of limestone, with a flagstone roof, it stood beside the millrace, which came rushing down through the garden.

When he turned the engine off, he could hear the old millrace running down the garden.

The rain had stopped but it had swelled the millrace, which sounded even louder and faster than on his last visit.

Groggy and sick, Banks stumbled outside and made it to the millrace before he emptied out his lunch.

Mechanically the lad walked along the millrace, which was made of hewn boards and hollow logs.

They came to the millrace and sat on the stone wall above the glistening rush of water.

For a time they looked down at the town, the millrace flashed in the sunlight, a wagon drove slowly over the stone bridge, and below the weir a gaggle of white geese swam indolently to and fro.

Here, to this middle-of-nowhere Somerset village where the mill-wheel creaked with age above the millrace and the apple scent of cider welled up from the cellars down below.

Jess and her daughter, while Jake gazed into the millrace as if into the Slough of Despond.

Syodor said, gesturing at the dry stone channel of the millrace below the wheel.