millpond
nounEtymology From mill + pond.
1
A pond or reservoir produced by damming a river or stream in order to provide a steady source of water for a millrace.
- When I came to the saw-mill at Brække, the sky was overcast, it was already growing dark, only above the level of the north-western horizon there appeared a streak of light, which threw a subdued glimmer on the tranquil surface of the mill-pond.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 152:
- Derived terms
- calm as a millpond
- Related terms
- milldam, millrace