milldam
/mil-dam/US // ˈmɪlˌdæm //UK // (ˈmɪlˌdæm) //
小米,小米粒,小米粒儿,大坝
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n.名词 noun
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- : a dam built in a stream to furnish a head of water for turning a mill wheel.
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Say, Jack, isn't that the name of the man who took the old Grimes farm up at the milldam?
Night found the army encamped on the east bank of Pine creek, above the site of the old Brier milldam.
In this is the Milldam Fall, a ledge about fourteen feet high, over which the waters make a uniform flow all across the ravine.
For two hundred years the water has rippled over the sill on which once firmly set the gate to the old milldam.
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