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单词 millpond
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millpond

/ˈmɪlpɒnd /
noun
1The pool which is created by a dam to provide the head of water that powers a watermill.A small millpond on Faunce's property powered a bellows for the furnace that the brook is named for....
  • 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.
1.1A very calm stretch of water: the sea was a brilliant blue millpond...
  • 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.
  • It really is a millpond most of the time, summer and winter.
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