spillway
a passageway through which surplus water escapes from a reservoir, lake, or the like.
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How to use spillway in a sentence
Fluctuations in the lake due to floods are controlled by an immense spillway dam built of concrete.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge | VariousThe spillway is so arranged that as the level of the water in the lake rises the discharging capacity increases.
The Panama Canal | Frederic Jennings HaskinThe spillway, too, if enlarged by explosives, would make a nasty hole to build up.
Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone | G. Harvey RalphsonThe spillway is a concrete-lined opening cut through a hill of rock near the center of the dam.
Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone | G. Harvey RalphsonBehind was the bubbling, leaping flow of the spillway itself, and Gatun Dam.
Raiders Invisible | Desmond Winter Hall
British Dictionary definitions for spillway
/ (ˈspɪlˌweɪ) /
a channel that carries away surplus water, as from a dam: Also called: wasteweir, spill
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