mill-head

Some years ago, at Farningham, (a village through which a noble trout-stream takes its course), stood a flour-mill, the proprietor of which informed my father, that he had often observed an enormous trout in the stream, near the mill-head, and that he would endeavour to catch it, in order to ascertain its real dimensions, as he was very desirous to have a picture done from it.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 334, October 4, 1828 Various

This food chiefly consisted of meal and flour, made into small balls, which allured the trout to remain near the mill-head.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 334, October 4, 1828 Various

I was dog-tired, and hungry, and that shamed I stopped a half-hour on the bridge over Proud's mill-head, wishing to throw myself in and ha 'done with it, but couldn't bring my mind to that, and so went on, and got to Wydcombe just as they was going to bed.

The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895

"I _shouldn't_ have called thee," she said shyly, as he sank pale and panting beside her, "but thee looked -- I thought thee was going to jump into the mill-head!"

In Exile and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892

One day in early June, Friend Barton's flock of sheep (consisting of nine experienced ewes, six yearlings, and a sprinkling of close-curled lambs whose legs had not yet come into mature relations with their bodies) was gathered in a wattled inclosure, beside the stream that flowed into the mill-head.

In Exile and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892

It was not Dorothy of the mill-head, or of Slocum's meadow, or the cold maid of the well; it was a very anxious, lonely little girl in a crumbling old house, with a foot of water in the cellar and a sick mother in the next room.

In Exile and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892

The deeps and shallows of the mill-pond being better known to him than to any other man in the camp, he had apparently come down on that account, and was cautioning some of the horsemen against riding too far in towards the mill-head.

The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

'O I don't mean that it is here; it is out by the bridge at the mill-head.'

The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

They had passed on out of the water, and instead of them there sat Festus Derriman alone on his horse, and in plain clothes, the water reaching up to the animal's belly, and Festus 'heels elevated over the saddle to keep them out of the stream, which threatened to wash rider and horse into the deep mill-head just below.

The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

The light shone out upon the broad and deep mill-head, illuminating to a distinct individuality every moth and gnat that entered the quivering chain of radiance stretching across the water towards him, and every bubble or atom of froth that floated into its width.

The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884