milldam

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Apparently, this self-taught prairie lawyer also taught himself how to buoy vessels in his early 20s, when a flatboat he worked on ran aground on a milldam in New Salem, Illinois.

From Slate • May 29, 2014

The puling Zinovi is called hurriedly to repair a break in a far-away milldam.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the spring the shad ran upriver to breed, but they couldn’t get past the milldam, and the pool was just swarming with them.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

What would be said of a mill-owner who should let his milldam wash away once or twice each year, and then rebuild it instead of keeping it in constant repair?

From The Road and the Roadside by Potter, Burton Willis

"Proposed what?—a match at billiards, a trot on the milldam, or a main of cocks?"

From The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Durivage, Francis A. (Francis Alexander)