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MILLRACE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does millrace mean?
• MILLRACE (noun)
The noun MILLRACE has 1 sense:
1. a channel for the water current that turns a millwheel
Familiarity information: MILLRACE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A channel for the water current that turns a millwheel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
millrace; millrun
Hypernyms ("millrace" is a kind of...):
conduit (a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass)
Context examples
I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but not an innocent freedom of the soul.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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