MILLRACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does millrace mean? 

• MILLRACE (noun)
  The noun MILLRACE has 1 sense:

1. a channel for the water current that turns a millwheel

  Familiarity information: MILLRACE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILLRACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A channel for the water current that turns a millwheel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

millrace; millrun

Hypernyms ("millrace" is a kind of...):

conduit (a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass)

 Context examples 

I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but not an innocent freedom of the soul.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)