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UK
/mˈɪlpɒnd/
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NOUN
- a pond formed by damming a stream to provide a head of water to turn a mill wheel
How To Use millpond In A Sentence
- Bisbee's millpond, formerly called Iron Works Pond, is now called Bryant Pond after Sylvanus Bryant, who ran a saw and boxboard mill on this site from 1870 until it was abandoned in 1900.
- The road on which the Federals marched passed by the mill and was bordered on the left by millponds and swamps and on the right by a swamp that extended into the Wateree River.
- The week after, there was a millpond under a vivid blue sky - with matching hammerhead shark cruising the northern limits.
- Near the milldam was the millpond, deep and full of fish; a little mill with a thatched roof was working away with The Chorus Girl and Other Stories
- A few minutes later we stood on the beach under a heavily clouded sky, looking out over a millpond sea.
- Barely larger than a swimming pool and not as deep, the millpond is not the sort of location you would normally choose to dive.
- You have loyal friends who frolicked with you in the millpond in your younger days, and will stand beside you with joy when you take the throne.
- This was something entirely missing in the placid ' millpond ' climax of the television dramatization.
- The sea was as calm as a millpond.
- Although the wheel has gone, the millpond is well maintained and is home to a great assortment of wildlife.