water race

plural water races · alternative water-race

1. An artificial channel through which water is directed to run at high speed.

   I know the mill and premises at Carrick, it is a water mill with a water-race attached.

   1841 January 7, The Launceston Advertiser, Tasmania, page 3, column 5

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   Andrew Brown put in a water-race which drove a wheel with which wheat was crushed at the Cooerwull mill, where later tweed was made.

   1938 December 29, The Lithgow Mercury, NSW, Australia, page 4, column 4

   This picture was taken from the head of a water race built to control the falls for a hydroelectric power plant.

   1956 October 17, The Australian Women's Weekly, page 16, column 1

   A five-year-old girl was drowned in a water race near Goroka recently. She was last seen going to the water race in the hills near Goroka to wash her drinking cup.

   1974 March 12, The Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, Port Moresby, page 10, column 5