Sage-Tips

Why do mills have ponds?

A mill pond (or millpond) is a body of water used as a reservoir for a water-powered mill.

What does still as a mill pond mean?

Meaning of millpond in English a pool of water that provides the power to make the wheel of a mill turn: The sea that day was like a millpond (= very calm and not moving).

How does a mill dam work?

A mill dam (International English) or milldam (US) is a dam constructed on a waterway to create a mill pond. By raising the water level so that the overflow has farther to fall, a milldam increases the potential energy that a mill can harness and use for various tasks.

How does a millpond work?

The mills found around Mill Pond were powered by water flowing in and out of Mill Creek and the floodgates during times of high tide. Water was collected in Mill Pond and would be slowly released through these channels where it turned the water wheel that operated the milling mechanism.

IS IT mill pond or milk pond?

A mill pond is formed by damming a stream to produce sufficient head of water to operate a watermill. Mill ponds are invariably described as smooth or calm. Milk too is smooth, and could be described as calming as well as nutritious.

Why do sawmills use water?

Log ponds are convenient water reservoirs for firefighting at sawmills; and for routine cooling and lubrication of saw blades and other mill machinery. Boiler blowdown, lumber drying kiln condensate, and exhaust steam from sawmill machinery sometimes kept a log pond from freezing during cold weather.

Is the saying mill pond or milk pond?

What is a calm sea?

If the sea or a lake is calm, the water is not moving very much and there are no big waves.

What is a millpool?

: a pond created by damming a stream to produce a head of water for operating a mill.

What does I’m parched mean?

parched adjective (VERY THIRSTY) informal. extremely thirsty: I must get a drink – I’m absolutely parched! SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Hungry & thirsty.

Is milling your own lumber worth it?

Milling your own lumber can produce quality material for a fraction of the price of a lumber dealer. In fact, if you purchase your own mill, like I have, you can actually make a profit off of it by selling lumber to other woodworkers and by offering to mill other people’s logs.

What is a tide mill and how does it work?

“A tide mill comprises the building which houses the milling machinery, the mill-pond, where the tidal water is retained, and the dam or causeway which confine and controls it. Sea water enters the pond through large sluices or “sea gates” which open under pressure from the rising tide, and close automatically after high water.

How does a mill work?

The workings of a classic mill are simple. At high tide seawater flows into a pond, protected by a dyke, through a sluice gate which closes automatically, under pressure from the water accumulated in the pond, as the tide begins to withdraw.

How did mill races and weirs improve water supplies?

Very often these supplies were improved by the provision of mill races and weirs to help overcome the problems of different seasonal water levels. Many of the weirs seen on rivers today were originally built to help control water levels for watermills.

The power of the incoming tide would force open one or more pairs of tide gates (or valve flaps) to admit the flow of water into the millpond. These gates would automatically close by natural force of the water current turning at ebb tide.