water race

English

Alternative forms
  • water-race

Noun

water race (plural water races)

  1. An artificial channel through which water is directed to run at high speed.
    • 1841 January 7, The Launceston Advertiser, Tasmania, page 3, column 5:
      I know the mill and premises at Carrick, it is a water mill with a water-race attached.
    • 1938 December 29, The Lithgow Mercury, NSW, Australia, page 4, column 4:
      Andrew Brown put in a water-race which drove a wheel with which wheat was crushed at the Cooerwull mill, where later tweed was made.
    • 1956 October 17, The Australian Women's Weekly, page 16, column 1:
      This picture was taken from the head of a water race built to control the falls for a hydroelectric power plant.
    • 1974 March 12, The Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, Port Moresby, page 10, column 5:
      A five-year-old girl was drowned in a water race near Goroka recently. She was last seen going to the water race in the hills near Goroka to wash her drinking cup.
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