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Definition of mill race in English: mill racenoun The channel carrying the swift current of water that drives a mill wheel. Example sentencesExamples - Visitors can still see the mill race which is nearly 1 metre deep.
- A council investigation led to the blocked sewerage pipe at the old mill race.
- Surveying was the essential precondition to owning land, building a mill race, or constructing a canal, railroad, or irrigation ditch.
- The mill race still works, but the stream chatters by as it has always done in its steep rocky little valley under the trees.
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