Milldams

Word MILLDAMS
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What do we mean by milldams?

A dam constructed across a river or stream to raise the water level so that it can turn a millwheel; also, the millpond so created.

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The word "milldams" in example sentences

"Yes," he sighed, 'the sound of water escaping from milldams, willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, brickwork and the scent of rotting apples ... ❋ Gardner, John (2002)

Provisions for watching over the public health were enforced, a guard kept over water supplies, stringent measures taken in regard to springs and wells, and the cleansing of ponds and milldams. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The trees were dark with leaves and brooded close above them; old water-fences and milldams cast inky shadows on the still, shallow ponds clasped in wooded hills. ❋ Mary Hallock Foote (1892)

Here are others, still brighter and larger, with yellow disks, and sky-blue flowers; these grow by still waters, near milldams and swampy places. ❋ Catharine Parr Strickland Traill (1850)

Our railway tunnels are wonderful works of science, but the mole tunnelled with its foot, and the pholas with one end of its shell, before our navvies handled pick or spade upon the heights of the iron roads: worms were prior to gimlets, ant-lions were the first funnel makers, a beaver showed men how to make the milldams, and the pendulous nests of certain birds swung gently in the air before the keen wit of even the most loving mother laid her nursling in a rocking cradle. ❋ Various (N/A)

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