Meaning of water race | Babel Free

Definitions

An artificial channel through which water is directed to run at high speed.

Examples

“I know the mill and premises at Carrick, it is a water mill with a water-race attached.”

“Andrew Brown put in a water-race which drove a wheel with which wheat was crushed at the Cooerwull mill, where later tweed was made.”

“This picture was taken from the head of a water race built to control the falls for a hydroelectric power plant.”

“A five-year-old girl was drowned in a water race near Goroka recently. She was last seen going to the water race in the hills near Goroka to wash her drinking cup.”

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