millrace
- n a channel for the water current that turns a millwheel
- The south Delta became seventy-five hundred square miles of millrace in which one hundred and twenty thousand human beings and one hundred thousand animals squirmed and bobbed.
- And every day Russians and Germans, like swimmers fighting in a millrace, were swept closer to the battle that may decide the fate of Europe.
- In a flash the Oregonians hauled him and his three companions out of the car and tossed them into the chilly millrace running by the campus.