Mill-leat

A newe Milleate or Trench for the Conveyance of the said Water to the said Milles.

Leat or Mill-leat, corruptly Mill-eat, a Trench for conveying Water to or from a Mill.

[…] thence along Hall’s Mill Lane to the Point at which the same meets the Mill Leat; thence along the Mill Leat to the Point at which the same meets Shearford Lane; […]

It was not yet dusk, but ’tween-light was blurring the outline of all things, when they came at last, two or maybe three miles down river, to the ford of a stream brawling down from the high chalk, and saw through the smoke-soft screen of willows and alders the gleam of a firelit doorway reflected in the glossy darkness of a mill leat.