Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The eye or opening in the cases of a mill at which the meal is let out.
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Examples
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But in the ocean arose a whirlpool (maelstrom, mill-stream) in the place where the sea runs into the mill-eye: the
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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A whirlpool was produced, where the waves are sucked up by the mill-eye, and the waters of the sea have been salt ever since.
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