milldam
a dam built in a stream to furnish a head of water for turning a mill wheel.
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How to use milldam in a sentence
Say, Jack, isn't that the name of the man who took the old Grimes farm up at the milldam?
The Banner Boy Scouts | George A. WarrenNight found the army encamped on the east bank of Pine creek, above the site of the old Brier milldam.
The Land of the Miamis | Elmore BarceIn this is the milldam Fall, a ledge about fourteen feet high, over which the waters make a uniform flow all across the ravine.
America, Volume IV (of 6) | Joel CookFor two hundred years the water has rippled over the sill on which once firmly set the gate to the old milldam.
Old Plymouth Trails | Winthrop Packard
British Dictionary definitions for milldam
/ (ˈmɪlˌdæm) /
a dam built in a stream to raise the water level sufficiently for it to turn a millwheel
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