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millpond

[ mil-pond ]

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noun

millpond

/ ˈmɪlˌpɒnd /

First recorded in 1640–50; mill ¹ + pond

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.

A lot of us fellers was out in ‘Squire Jones’s millpond a washing ourselves and swimming.

They darted around the slower flotilla of merchant steamships like lucky-bugs on a millpond.

Just over that crest of foam there lay a narrow bay, still as a millpond.

It was a warm and beautiful day and the water was as calm as a millpond.

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