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n. - The water current that turns a factory wheel.

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Usage examples (24)
  • The water foaming against the wheels like a millstream.
  • The French infantry lay by the millstream as though on a holiday.
  • It was a glorious sunny day, we could see the swans down in the millstream guddling around and someone had brought home made cake.
  • He said, ‘Biddy Early’s cure that you heard of, between the two wheels of Ballylee, it was the moss on the water of the millstream.
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