noun
Etymology
Origin of millstream
Example Sentences
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When the dead woman's handbag was fished out of a lake far off the A2O road, Fabian traced the course of the bag up an old millstream to a cider works near the road.
From Time Magazine Archive
So we went back to Jerry’s house and got another line and some hooks, and then walked down to the millstream, which was really the Aspetuck River.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
The path wound along a bank a couple of feet above the millstream.
From The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
The current was running along the side of the ship like a millstream.
From Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young by Jacob B. Bull
For as the sluice gates opened a sullen roar sounded; on one side the diverted millstream, and on the other the river, rose as two solid walls of water, rushed forward and—met.
From Cleek, the Master Detective by Thomas W. Hanshew
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