hammer pond

American  

noun

1. an artificial pond for maintaining a head of water at a water mill.

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Etymology

Origin of hammer pond

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

Then, all at once, before her she saw that same young lawyer who had insulted her at the Hammer Pond.

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She saw in the barrister who was to act as counsel in the prosecution that same young man who had insulted her on the dam of the Hammer Pond.

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Mehetabel was uneasy when she noticed now that the bewigged young man who had spoken with her at the Hammer Pond labored to bring out from the witnesses' admissions that would tell against her.

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I have been out with Bunny Wrigg sometimes when he has been setting night-lines in the old hammer pond, and catching big eels, and sometimes wild ducks, and— Pst!

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“Look here, these are my old nets with which we drag the hammer pond, and catch the carp and tench; great golden fellows they are, some of them; but the worst of it is the pond’s so deep that the fish dive under the net and escape.”

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