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millpond

/mil-pond/US // ˈmɪlˌpɒnd //UK // (ˈmɪlˌpɒnd) //

水池,水塘,小池塘,水库

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a pond for supplying water to drive a mill wheel.

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Examples

  • That it would sit there and bob calmly like a sailboat on a millpond-calm sea?

  • It was behind the trees beyond Millpond Farm, where the sun had dipped down and left the horizon ablaze.

  • A lot of us fellers was out in ‘Squire Jones’s millpond a washing ourselves and swimming.

  • They darted around the slower flotilla of merchant steamships like lucky-bugs on a millpond.

  • Just over that crest of foam there lay a narrow bay, still as a millpond.

  • It was a warm and beautiful day and the water was as calm as a millpond.