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Meaning of mill dam | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ˈmɪldam

Definitions

A dam constructed across a river or stream to raise the water level so that it can turn a millwheel; also, the millpond so created.

Equivalents

Deutsch Mühldamm
Suomi myllypato
Galego banzado

Examples

“the which, once being brust, / Like to a great Mill-damb forth fiercely gusht, / And powred out of her infernall sinke / Most ugly filth […]”
“He looked so joyy and so good— / While fishing in the milldam-water, / I laughed to see him as he stood, / And dreamt not of the miller's daughter.”
“I sat down on the wooden side of a mill-dam and thought over the past night and the strange adventure in the entrance-hall of Agnes' house.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

mill drill Mill End mill fever mill head Mill Hill mill moth

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