mill dam
See also: milldam
English
Alternative forms
- milldam
- mill-dam
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɪldam/
Noun
- 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.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:
- the which, once being brust, / Like to a great Mill-damb forth fiercely gusht, / And powred out of her infernall sinke / Most ugly filth […].
- 1833, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘The Miller's Daughter’:
- Or from the bridge I lean'd to hear / The milldam rushing down with noise, / And see the minnows everywhere / In crystal eddies glance and poise […].
- 1960, AM Holt, translating Gottfried Keller, Green Henry, Calder Publications 2010, p. 456:
- I sat down on the wooden side of a mill-dam and thought over the past night and the strange adventure in the entrance-hall of Agnes' house.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:
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