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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



... down to the alfalfa-fields, round them, and back up to the spillway of the lower lake, where a group of mesquite-trees, owing to the water that seeped through the sand to their roots, had taken on bloom and beauty of renewed life. Under these trees there was shade enough to make a pleasant place to linger. Madeline dismounted, desiring ...
— The Light of Western Stars • Zane Grey



Words linked to "Spillway" :   conduit, wasteweir



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