millpond
a pond for supplying water to drive a mill wheel.
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How to use millpond in a sentence
That it would sit there and bob calmly like a sailboat on a millpond-calm sea?
It was behind the trees beyond millpond Farm, where the sun had dipped down and left the horizon ablaze.
The Devourers | Annie Vivanti ChartresA lot of us fellers was out in ‘Squire Jones’s millpond a washing ourselves and swimming.
Letters from the Alleghany Mountains | Charles LanmanThey darted around the slower flotilla of merchant steamships like lucky-bugs on a millpond.
Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross | Alice B. EmersonJust over that crest of foam there lay a narrow bay, still as a millpond.
White Fire | Roy J. Snell
It was a warm and beautiful day and the water was as calm as a millpond.
The Girls of Central High | Gertrude W. Morrison
British Dictionary definitions for millpond
/ (ˈmɪlˌpɒnd) /
a pool formed by damming a stream to provide water to turn a millwheel
any expanse of calm water: the sea was a millpond
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