Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

water race

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.95 in modern English

Syllables: wa-ter race
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An artificial channel through which water is directed to run at high speed.

Example Sentences

"I know the mill and premises at Carrick, it is a water mill with a water-race attached."
"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."
"This picture was taken from the head of a water race built to control the falls for a hydroelectric power plant."
"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."

Inflected Forms

water races (plural) water-race (alternative)

Questions

What does water race mean?: An artificial channel through which water is directed to run at high speed.

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