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.