race-way

They stopped before a low, straggling pile of buildings, located upon both sides of a sluggish looking race-way which supplied the water power, covered passage-ways connecting different portions of the works.

Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls Anonymous

The method of applying water power in that day being strictly limited to placing the overshot or breast wheel in the race leading from the canal to the river, the mill was necessarily placed on a narrow strip of land between these two bodies of water, with the race-way running under the mill.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 Various

Cliff, and old 'Prospero,' and beside his lake, and the Emerald Bowl, and then finished by the most curious, perhaps the most beautiful passage we have yet seen in the mountains -- 'The Flume' -- thus called, probably, from a homely association with the race-way of a mill.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

In January one Marshall, who was engaged in digging a race-way for the mill for Colonel Sutter, found a metal which he had not seen before, and, on testing it in the fire, found that it was gold.

A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914

The first pin-block projected its third pin as the first word came traveling along the race-way; second block did the same; but the third block projected its second pin!

Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872

The first pin-block projected its third pin as the first word came traveling along the race-way; second block did the same; but the third block projected its second pin!

Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) Mark Twain 1872

Then he boldly skirted the cabin and dropped into the race-way at its side.

Cressy Bret Harte 1869

French gave a loud and general shout just as the boat issued out of this race-way into a wide capacious bay, within the group of islands, which had the appearance of forming a roadstead of some note.

Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" James Fenimore Cooper 1820

Officials accused Liebner of dip-netting the trout from a race-way at the Big Springs Hatchery near Elkader in northeast Iowa.

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