Meanings
nounmillstream (plural millstreams)
plural millstreams · alternative mill stream · alternative mill-stream
- The water that runs through a millrace to power a mill.
[W]hile he was away Hinzelmann began suddenly to clapper in the ladies' chamber like a stork, and then said, "Maid Anne, you much go look for your things to-day in the mill-stream."
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 53
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