1The pool which is created by a dam to provide the head of water that powers a watermill.
磨坊水池（筑坝拦河而成，为水车提供水力）
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A millpond, barn, and old stone mansion, which is furnished in a home decor, make up the campus.
Barely larger than a swimming pool and not as deep, the millpond is not the sort of location you would normally choose to dive.
Most of the inside of the door is covered in faded photos of her and James out at the beach, at the millpond, or slurping a shared food court smoothie.
A small millpond on Faunce's property powered a bellows for the furnace that the brook is named for.
A mill was built on a bend in the Waitotoroa River, with half an hectare nearby flooded for a millpond.
The road on which the Federals marched passed by the mill and was bordered on the left by millponds and swamps and on the right by a swamp that extended into the Wateree River.
You have loyal friends who frolicked with you in the millpond in your younger days, and will stand beside you with joy when you take the throne.
1.1A very calm stretch of water.
〈喻〉风平浪静的水面
the sea was a brilliant blue millpond
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It really is a millpond most of the time, summer and winter.
After a delay for the weather to pass, Malta regatta course turned to a millpond of calm, perfect rowing conditions for the men's four.
Definition of millpond in US English:
millpond
(also mill pond)
nounˈmɪlˌpɑndˈmilˌpänd
The pool that is created by a milldam and provides the head of water that powers a water mill.
磨坊水池（筑坝拦河而成，为水车提供水力）
Example sentencesExamples
Most of the inside of the door is covered in faded photos of her and James out at the beach, at the millpond, or slurping a shared food court smoothie.
Barely larger than a swimming pool and not as deep, the millpond is not the sort of location you would normally choose to dive.
The road on which the Federals marched passed by the mill and was bordered on the left by millponds and swamps and on the right by a swamp that extended into the Wateree River.
You have loyal friends who frolicked with you in the millpond in your younger days, and will stand beside you with joy when you take the throne.
A mill was built on a bend in the Waitotoroa River, with half an hectare nearby flooded for a millpond.
A millpond, barn, and old stone mansion, which is furnished in a home decor, make up the campus.
A small millpond on Faunce's property powered a bellows for the furnace that the brook is named for.