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Spillway   Listen
noun
Spillway  n.  A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Spillway" Quotes from Famous Books



... place seemed abandoned. Then I noticed some berry bushes near the sluice had been lately snapped off, where some heavy animal had pushed through, and a moment later, in the moist soil at a small spillway, I picked up the trail ...
— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson

... you would take a look at the boulevard spillway. I know McGowan's work and how he skins it sometimes, and I'm getting worried. Coggins says the water is backing up, and that the slopes are giving way. You can see yourself what a lot of water ...
— Peter - A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero • F. Hopkinson Smith

... Blake. "When we come back we'll stop off here and get some views from below the dam, showing the spillway." ...
— The Moving Picture Boys at Panama - Stirring Adventures Along the Great Canal • Victor Appleton



Words linked to "Spillway" :   wasteweir, conduit



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