Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A dam constructed across a stream to raise the water level so that the overflow will have sufficient power to turn a mill wheel.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A dam designed to check the flow of a stream and cause the water to rise until a sufficient head has been obtained to furnish the power necessary for turning a mill-wheel.
- n. A mill-pond.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.
WordNet 3.0
- n. dam to make a millpond to provide power for a water mill
Examples
“Near the milldam was the millpond, deep and full of fish; a little mill with a thatched roof was working away with”
“Maybe the water waltzing over the milldam and a hearty meal of pork chops glazed with an apple bourbon sauce were exactly what I needed to take my mind off my mother.”
“Kennaquhair, or because it agrees with scenes of the Monastery in the circumstances of the drawbridge, the milldam, and other points of resemblance, that therefore an accurate or perfect local similitude is to be found in all the particulars of the picture.”
“With all the bridges over the River Main blown out, Anderson confiscated an abandoned wooden boat and he and the intelligence officer, both seasoned fishermen, rowed across to Schweinfurt, battling a heavy current that threatened to carry the party of four over a milldam.”
“The 'six hundred and twenty thousand tons of water each minute' nearly ceased to flow, and dwindled away into the appearance of a mere milldam.”
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
“A picket of 50 men in fort Putnam, 25 in fort Box, a sergt. & 12 men at the milldam from the 9th, 11th, 12th Regts.”
“But at that they had made good time through their chase and within a very few minutes the last bend of the river showed them the milldam.”
“Almost due west of that was the milldam, which was about the only place they could hope to be able to cross Plum Run -- and Watertown lay on the other side.”
“There has been no rain since the first of May, and how the jolly old miller will laugh till the tears fill his eyes when he sees the water rise in the milldam. ”
“Compared to the machine of 1939 its effective horsepower is as Niagara Hydro to the Kleinberg milldam of my boyhood, which used to turn the wheels only when Ben Hogben remembered to pull the stop-log.”
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