Definition of "millpond" [millpond]

• A pond formed by a milldam. (noun)

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• "Young Benjamin Franklin tried hard to explain that a wharf on the edge of the millpond was a public necessity."
• "Bennett, thirty miles in length, was like a millpond; but, half way across, a gale from the south smote them and turned the water white."
• "I agree with you, though a lagoon is no millpond for riding it out."