Meaning

2 senses
  1. A mill powered by water.

    The machine or device itself.

    Near-synonym: water engine

    Wassermühle

    водяна́я ме́льницаvodjanája mélʹnica

    водяни́й млинvodjanýj mlyn

  2. The machine and the building that houses it, considered as a unit.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. There was a watermill below the dam.

  2. Crops were sown, and grew up, and were gathered in; the stream that had been crimsoned, turned a watermill.

Translations

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Origin

From water + mill.

From water + mill.

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