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Originally Posted by MoreJoe
The term mill pond is often used colloquially to refer to a very flat body of water. "It's like a mill pond!" - Captain Smith of R.M.S. Titanic.
I guess Captain Smith was not from Lancashire.....
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Strangely we used that phrase in our family, growing up.
Which usually meant the sea or lake was errily glass like, and we were going to have some great waterskiing.
We'd still refer to a lodge as a lodge though. Never a mill pond.
My dad always eyed lodges, wondering if they were large enough to get a boat on.
One near Darwen was.
We only skied on there once though.
Wasn't much fun, just going round and round, in circles.
Plus the ducks looked a bit peeved, at our disturbing the peacefulness of their lodge.
