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say it: moo-LAN
moulin is a noun meaning "a chute through which supraglacial water enters a glacier, boring either to the bedrock or to the depth of common crevasse formation". It carries one recorded sense.
a chute through which supraglacial water enters a glacier, boring either to the bedrock or to the depth of common crevasse formation
“the icy river plunged, roaring, into the moulin's blue depths”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for moulin come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.