Definitions for millrace

millrace mill·race

Spelling: [mil-reys]
IPA: /ˈmɪlˌreɪs/

Millrace is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 319 anagrams from letters in millrace (aceillmr).

Definitions for millrace

noun

  1. the channel in which the current of water driving a mill wheel flows to the mill.
  2. the current itself.

Origin of millrace

First recorded in 1470-80; mill1 + race1

Examples for millrace

The return of that wilderness was like the rushing of a millrace.

The high wooded bank seemed miles away, and the river ran like a millrace.

Then the hills closed in on the river and the current ran like a millrace.

He was drowning—swiftly and surely—while the current bore him steadily toward the millrace.

I know they are going to make the city build the millrace and then steal it.

The crowd caught and bore them both along like chips in a millrace, keeping the interval constant.

It was the boy who had been saved from the millrace that August afternoon.

Today he is covered with whitecaps and the current runs like a millrace.

How will Barney Doran's millrace agree with your motor-boats?

Just above the millrace was a quiet pool under the bank where great, fragrant water-lilies floated upon the surface.

Word Value for millrace
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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