millpond

[ mil-pond ]

/ ˈmɪlˌpɒnd /

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noun

a pond for supplying water to drive a mill wheel.

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Origin of millpond

First recorded in 1640–50; mill¹ + pond

Words nearby millpond

milliroentgen, millisecond, millivolt, milliwatt, Mill, John Stuart, millpond, millrace, millrind, millrun, Mills, Mills bomb

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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?
Atheist King Richard Dawkins’ Rape Fantasy|Tim Teeman|July 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was behind the trees beyond Millpond Farm, where the sun had dipped down and left the horizon ablaze.
The Devourers|Annie Vivanti Chartres
A lot of us fellers was out in ‘Squire Jones’s millpond a washing ourselves and swimming.
Letters from the Alleghany Mountains|Charles Lanman
They darted around the slower flotilla of merchant steamships like lucky-bugs on a millpond.
Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross|Alice B. Emerson

Just 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

millpond

/ (ˈmɪlˌpɒnd) /

noun

a pool formed by damming a stream to provide water to turn a millwheel

any expanse of calm waterthe sea was a millpond

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millpond

Origin of millpond

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