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Definition of millpond in English: millpondnoun ˈmɪlpɒndˈmɪlˌpɑnd 1The pool which is created by a dam to provide the head of water that powers a watermill. Example sentencesExamples - A millpond, barn, and old stone mansion, which is furnished in a home decor, make up the campus.
- Barely larger than a swimming pool and not as deep, the millpond is not the sort of location you would normally choose to dive.
- Most of the inside of the door is covered in faded photos of her and James out at the beach, at the millpond, or slurping a shared food court smoothie.
- A small millpond on Faunce's property powered a bellows for the furnace that the brook is named for.
- A mill was built on a bend in the Waitotoroa River, with half an hectare nearby flooded for a millpond.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1.1 A very calm stretch of water.
the sea was a brilliant blue millpond Example sentencesExamples - It really is a millpond most of the time, summer and winter.
- After a delay for the weather to pass, Malta regatta course turned to a millpond of calm, perfect rowing conditions for the men's four.
Definition of millpond in US English: millpond(also mill pond) nounˈmɪlˌpɑndˈmilˌpänd The pool that is created by a milldam and provides the head of water that powers a water mill. Example sentencesExamples - Most of the inside of the door is covered in faded photos of her and James out at the beach, at the millpond, or slurping a shared food court smoothie.
- Barely larger than a swimming pool and not as deep, the millpond is not the sort of location you would normally choose to dive.
- 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.
- 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.
- A mill was built on a bend in the Waitotoroa River, with half an hectare nearby flooded for a millpond.
- A millpond, barn, and old stone mansion, which is furnished in a home decor, make up the campus.
- A small millpond on Faunce's property powered a bellows for the furnace that the brook is named for.
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