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What (who) is millpond - definition
BODY OF WATER USED AS A RESERVOIR FOR A WATER-POWERED MILL
Mill Pond; Millpond; Mill lodge
![Panorama of Cromford mill pond. [[Cromford]], county of [[Derbyshire]], [[England]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cromford mill pond.jpg?width=200 "Panorama of Cromford mill pond. [[Cromford]], county of [[Derbyshire]], [[England]].")
millpond
¦ noun the pool created by a mill dam, providing the head of water that powers a watermill.
?a very calm stretch of water.
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Mill pond
A mill pond (or millpond) is a body of water used as a reservoir for a water-powered mill.
Examples of use of millpond
1. It does look suspicious, especially when you consider that the sea that day was like a millpond.
2. The sea that day was described as "like a millpond", which prompted bafflement that he could have got into difficulties.
3. The Caribbean is no millpond: steering the boat in 30 knot winds and 8ft seas is like riding a rodeo beast which bucks and rears beneath you.
4. Tom Waller, 60, of Hartlepool Coastwatch – a voluntary organisation of ex–seamen which mans a lookout point – said the sea had been ‘as smooth as a millpond‘ and rescuers were puzzled how a canoeist could get into trouble.