millstream

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Recent Examples of millstream Dating back to at least the 12th century, the island is separated from Lesser Town by a millstream that powered local mills for hundreds of years. Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025 One of them is recorded in the Domesday Book, which was written in 1086, and pieces of a Roman millstone have recently been found in the bed of the millstream. Laura Euler For Dirt.com, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2021
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Noun
  • Floating solar panels on reservoirs or installing them over canals saves land and makes the panels operate more efficiently.
    Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • The warehouses that line the canals are being converted into luxury flats and artist studios.
    Sarah Beckwith, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Noun
  • This waterway is one of the key gateways along the first island chain that the Chinese navy uses to access the broader western Pacific Ocean.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
  • Here's why and what happened CT officials issue urgent plea for help stopping ‘a plague’ in state waterways.
    Staff Reports, Hartford Courant, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • That episode led to the diversion of the Turia watercourse, which meant that a large part of the city was spared of these floods.
    Teresa Medrano, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The flash floods battered regions like Barrio de la Torre in Valencia, where narrow streets became lethal watercourses.
    Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • This gem detailing the ancient underground aqueducts of Rome gives both a visual and historical account of man’s insatiable appetite to overcome nature and create astonishing engineering marvels to uplift the human condition.
    Smithsonian magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 May 2025
  • The tunnel would create a second route to transport water to the state’s pumping facilities on the south side of the Delta, where supplies enter the aqueducts of the State Water Project and are delivered to 27 million people and 750,000 acres of farmland.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Yet the British press documented her life as the type of mother that millions of women could recognize: running barefoot in the mums’ race at a school sports day; riding the log flume with her children at a theme park; dropping the kids off at school, dressed in leggings and a baggy sweater.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 10 May 2025
  • Braving a series of twists and turns while racing down the flume of a high-speed dueling water coaster? Sun Sentinel Dave Hyde: Ten April blunders tell why Dolphins don’t win in January For too much of a quarter-century, the Dolphins have been on the wrong side of either-or draft decisions.
    South Florida Sun Sentinel, Sun Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Still, on May 4, India lowered sluice gates at the Baglihar dam, effectively reducing the downstream flow to Pakistan through the Chenab River by up to 90%, according to the Hindustan Times.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 7 May 2025
  • This option returns the pond to its full former glory including sluice gate repair, dredging the full pond area and recreational enhancements to include 5.7 acres of open water and two fishing platforms.
    Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The road also looks much wider than most Mario Kart raceways, possibly accommodating 24 drivers.
    Will Greenwald, PCMAG, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The stands, which line both sides of the raceway, were full as our procession turned onto the track itself.
    Rachel Kushner, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The spillway was built in 1931 to remove pressure on the levees protecting New Orleans by diverting up to 250,000 cubic feet of fresh water per second into Lake Pontchartrain’s brackish waters.
    Amy Graff, New York Times, 3 May 2025
  • The South Florida Water Management District is working with the Army Corps of Engineer and county officials on an expensive plan to put in 20 new pumps and raise spillway gates.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2025

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“Millstream.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/millstream. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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