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单词 mill-race
释义

mill-racen.

Brit. /ˈmɪlreɪs/, U.S. /ˈmɪlˌreɪs/
Forms: see mill n.1 and race n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mill n.1, race n.1
Etymology: < mill n.1 + race n.1
The swift current of water that drives a mill-wheel; a channel in which water runs to a watermill. Also figurative.
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1478–9 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 647 Operantibus in muracione murorum et posicione del Milnrasses et le bay ejusdem molendini.
1536–7 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 702 Le mylnerasse de Scaltok.
1667 G. Rawdon Let. 31 Aug. in Conway Lett. (1992) v. 290 The milrace is arched and cover'd through the low garden plott.
1750 B. Franklin Let. 13 Feb. in Papers (1961) III. 464 The Water in a long Sluice or Mill Race, being stop'd by a Gate, is at Rest like the Air in a Calm.
1770 G. Washington Diaries I. 380 John Harvey went to Ditchg. on my Mill Race at 1/3 pr. Rod.
1822 T. Bewick Mem. (1975) iii. 34 Others were digging a Millrace of about a quarter of a mile in length.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §7. 100 To rescue his hawk..he once plunged into a millrace, and was all but crushed by the wheel.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. v. 120 Susan, silent, her thoughts flowing like a mill race, helped Ida with the dishes.
1938 Open Road for Boys July 14/2 The millrace current, sweeping by at a good ten-mile clip, made it seem as if we were being carried downstream.
1963 A. R. Woolley Clarendon Guide Oxf. 130 A path continues between the river and a mill-race and this is known as Mesopotamia.
1988 Motor Boat & Yachting Oct. 118/3 A 70 ft-wide channel where the stream tore past like a mill race.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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