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mill race en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈmɪlɹeɪs/ (UK)

Meanings

1. A fast-running water-filled channel diverted from a river or stream used to drive the millwheel in a watermill.
   • For a time the apostis glowed like a forge; gradually it dimmed and went out, and our ship resumed a more conventional position, though the wind still screamed in the rigging and the clouds scudded under us like flecks of foam in a mill race. 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVII, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 162:
   • The mill race was a ditch that was cut which started along the river’s edge that ran past the mill to provide the water that would turn a wheel that would provide power to the saws. There was a gate on the ditch which could be raised or lowered to allow the water to run or to stop its flow down the ditch. 2000, Lewis J Swindle, The History of the Gold Discoveries of the Northern Mines of California's Mother Lode Gold Belt As Told by the Newspapers and Miners 1848-1875, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 8:
   • She liked the cold water of the mill-race, and without shame or hesitation would throw off her frock and float like a mermaid, almost invisible, in the watery element. 1935, Benedict Read, The Green Child, Capuchin, published 2010, page 36:

Forms

Meronyms

tailrace · headrace · wheel-race

Relateds

mill dam · millpond

Synonyms

millrun · mill lade · watergang · lade

Translations (15)

gl levada (channel) · bg воденичен улей (channel) · es saetín (channel) · fi kouru (channel) · gl canle (channel) · fr bief (channel) · wa bî (channel) · fi myllyn kouru (channel) · cmn 磨坊水道 (channel) · gl cal (channel) · hu malomcsatorna (channel) · pt levada (channel) · de Mühlbach (channel) · it gora (channel) · de Mühlgraben (channel)