A newe Milleate or Trench for the Conveyance of the said Water to the said Milles.
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Mill-leat
//ˈmɪlːiːt//
Synonyms for "mill-leat"
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Translations
2 translations across 1 languages.
Welsh
2 entries- cafn melin m pynfarch noun (artificial channel for the conveyance of water to a mill)
- pŵant (Carmarthenshire) noun (artificial channel for the conveyance of water to a mill)
Sample sentences
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Leat or Mill-leat, corruptly Mill-eat, a Trench for conveying Water to or from a Mill.
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[…] 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; […]
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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.
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