milldam

Example Sentences

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Apparently, this self-taught prairie lawyer also taught himself how to buoy vessels in his early 20s, when a flatboat he worked on ran aground on a milldam in New Salem, Illinois.

From Slate • May 29, 2014

The puling Zinovi is called hurriedly to repair a break in a far-away milldam.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the spring the shad ran upriver to breed, but they couldn’t get past the milldam, and the pool was just swarming with them.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

"We have never taken the boat up the river beyond the village, on account of the milldam."

From Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3) by Parker, Francis W. (Francis Wayland)

My dear boy," said Edward, "after getting a certain amount of knowledge, other knowledge comes very fast; it gathers like a snowball—or perhaps it would be better to illustrate the fact by a milldam.

From Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life by Lover, Samuel