milldam
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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
It was found, however, that it could be drained; but at certain seasons of the year surface water would accumulate from the overflow of a milldam.
From Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings by George E. (George Evertson) Woodward
How when Widow Norton’s only son could not be found, he dived into the deep hole of the intake of the milldam of the great Carstone mills where Wingate the farrier had been drowned.
From The Man by Bram Stoker
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