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
Near the milldam was the millpond, deep and full of fish; a little mill with a thatched roof was working away with a wrathful sound, and frogs croaked furiously.
From The Chorus Girl and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
The 'six hundred and twenty thousand tons of water each minute' nearly ceased to flow, and dwindled away into the appearance of a mere milldam.
From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs
