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millrace

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mill·race  (mlrs)
n.
1. The fast-moving stream of water that drives a mill wheel.
2. The channel for the water that drives a mill wheel. Also called millrun.
millrace
Noun
the current of water that turns a millwheel
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Noun1.millrace - a channel for the water current that turns a millwheel
millrun
conduit - a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass; "the computers were connected through a system of conduits"


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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.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
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