spillway
[spil-wey]
noun
a passageway through which surplus water escapes from a reservoir, lake, or the like.
Origin of spillway
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Related Words for spillway
inundation, deluge, gully, creek, stream, sluice, canal, estuary, aqueduct, brook, channel, flume, conduit, gutter, culvert, inlet, chute, drain, gullet, trenchExamples from the Web for spillway
Historical Examples of spillway
You know its location: a mile, perhaps, from Gatun Dam and the spillway.
Raiders InvisibleDesmond Winter Hall
It also serves as a spillway over which the surplus water escapes.
Electricity for the farmFrederick Irving Anderson
It could only race and swirl along one channel, and that was the spillway of memories.
The Tyranny of WeaknessCharles Neville Buck
Here they could erect their spillway for the control of the water in the lake above.
The Panama CanalFrederic Jennings Haskin
The first stop was at the concrete work on the spillway dam at Miraflores.
The Panama CanalFrederic Jennings Haskin
spillway
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