noun

• The channel carrying the swift current of water that drives a mill wheel.

  ‘A council investigation led to the blocked sewerage pipe at the old mill race.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Surveying was the essential precondition to owning land, building a mill race, or constructing a canal, railroad, or irrigation ditch.’
  • ‘Visitors can still see the mill race which is nearly 1 metre deep.’
  • ‘The mill race still works, but the stream chatters by as it has always done in its steep rocky little valley under the trees.’