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View synonyms for millpond

millpond

[ mil-pond ]

noun

  1. a pond for supplying water to drive a mill wheel.


millpond

/ ˈmɪlˌpɒnd /

noun

  1. a pool formed by damming a stream to provide water to turn a millwheel
  2. any expanse of calm water

    the sea was a millpond

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of millpond1

First recorded in 1640–50; mill 1 + pond
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Example Sentences

That it would sit there and bob calmly like a sailboat on a millpond-calm sea?

It was behind the trees beyond Millpond Farm, where the sun had dipped down and left the horizon ablaze.

A lot of us fellers was out in ‘Squire Jones’s millpond a washing ourselves and swimming.

They darted around the slower flotilla of merchant steamships like lucky-bugs on a millpond.

Just over that crest of foam there lay a narrow bay, still as a millpond.

It was a warm and beautiful day and the water was as calm as a millpond.

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