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millpond

[ mil-pond ]

noun

  1. a pond for supplying water to drive a mill wheel.


millpond

/ ˈ³¾Éª±ôËŒ±èÉ’²Ô»å /

noun

  1. a pool formed by damming a stream to provide water to turn a millwheel
  2. any expanse of calm water

    the sea was a millpond

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Origin of millpond1

First recorded in 1640–50; mill 1 + pond
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This symbolic millpond is all we have to represent the political powerhouse that was federation-era Australia.

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Wild and rough; rust brown and green; flat as a millpond; metal grey; mother of pearl; silver.

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Other ongoing work includes restoring the penstock, the long metal pipe that carries water from the millpond dam to power the water wheel to drive sawmill machinery.

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There was no wind, and the sea looked flat and glassy as a millpond.

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Only the plan is to run out into the smelly millpond and drown us both.

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