A water channel or mill race that directs water to turn a mill wheel.
Possibly from Scottish or Northern English dialect, combining 'ash' (unclear origin) with 'key' (from Old Norse 'kia' meaning bay or creek). Regional water management vocabulary.
Ashkey reveals how different regions named their crucial infrastructure—in a pre-industrial world, the names people gave to their water systems were passed down through generations of mill-workers.
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