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millpond en · NOUN

Etymology

From mill + pond.

Meanings

1. A pond or reservoir produced by damming a river or stream in order to provide a steady source of water for a millrace.
   • When I came to the saw-mill at Brække, the sky was overcast, it was already growing dark, only above the level of the north-western horizon there appeared a streak of light, which threw a subdued glimmer on the tranquil surface of the mill-pond. 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 152:

Forms

Deriveds

calm as a millpond

Relateds

millrace · milldam

Translations (7)

gl banzado (pond or reservoir) · gl cubo (pond or reservoir) · cmn 磨坊水池 (pond or reservoir) · ca bassa del molí (pond or reservoir) · bg воденичен вир (pond or reservoir) · gl presa (pond or reservoir) · fi myllylampi (pond or reservoir)