Definition of "millrace" [millrace]

• The fast-moving stream of water that drives a mill wheel. (noun)
• The channel for the water that drives a mill wheel. Also called millrun. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The millrace is a choke of earth, a whisper of weeds."
• "Just above the millrace was a quiet pool under the bank where great, fragrant water-lilies floated upon the surface."
• "Last week, over a meadow by the millrace, one exited left, pursued by a crow, issuing an agitated stream of peeps."