millrace
[mil-reys]
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noun
the channel in which the current of water driving a mill wheel flows to the mill.
the current itself.
Origin of millrace
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How will Barney Doran's millrace agree with your motor-boats?
Personality in LiteratureRolfe Arnold Scott-James
It was the boy who had been saved from the millrace that August afternoon.
A Little Miss NobodyAmy Bell Marlowe
Then the hills closed in on the river and the current ran like a millrace.
A Wayfarer in ChinaElizabeth Kendall
The return of that wilderness was like the rushing of a millrace.
The Island QueenR.M. Ballantyne
Today he is covered with whitecaps and the current runs like a millrace.
The houseboat bookWilliam F. Waugh
millrace
millrun
noun
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