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

We lost our way twice, and after four hours of hard marching, we found ourselves opposite a milldam we crossed early that same morning; for the guides led us all astray!

From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Lever, Charles James

A man working on a milldam kept on for an hour after nightfall on Saturday to finish it, and next day his child fell into a well and was drowned.

From The Chief End of Man by Merriam, George Spring