millrace
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mill·race
(mĭl'rās') 
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- The fast-moving stream of water that drives a mill wheel.
- The channel for the water that drives a mill wheel. Also called millrun.
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A mill race, raceway or mill lade (in Scotland) is the current or channel of a stream, especially one for conducting water to or from a water wheel or other device for utilizing its energy. The race leading to the water wheel is called the head race, and the race leading away from the wheel is called the tail race.
Hikers on the Ben Utter Trail in Arcadia State Park, Hope Valley, Rhode Island, can see the site of a former sawmill and may notice man-made channels cut into the granite. These grooves formed the millrace, increasing the speed of the water as it approached the sawmill so that it would have adequate force to turn the mill's huge waterwheel.
Besides Scotland, certain races in England, such as ones in Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire and Nayland, Suffolk are called "mill lade".
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Mill-race
Dansk (Danish)
n. - møllerende
Français (French)
n. - bief, chenal
Deutsch (German)
n. - Mühlbach
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μυλαύλακο
Italiano (Italian)
corrente che aziona il mulino
Português (Portuguese)
n. - corrente de água que alimenta roda de moinho (f)
Русский (Russian)
поток воды, приводящий в движение мельничное колесо, мельничный лоток
Español (Spanish)
n. - saetín, caz
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kvarnränna
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
推动水车的水流
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 推動水車的水流
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 水車用水, 水車用水路, 水車用導水路
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - אפיק הזרם או הזרם המפעיל טחנת-קמח
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