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Synonyms for spillway


Grammar : Noun
Spell : spil-wey
Phonetic Transcription : ˈspɪlˌweɪ

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Définition of spillway

Origin :
  • 1889, from spill + way.
  • As in overflowing : noun overflow
  • As in watercourse : noun waterway
  • As in flume : noun chute
Example sentences :
  • You know its location: a mile, perhaps, from Gatun Dam and the spillway.
  • Extract from : « Raiders Invisible » by Desmond Winter Hall
  • It also serves as a spillway over which the surplus water escapes.
  • Extract from : « Electricity for the farm » by Frederick Irving Anderson
  • It could only race and swirl along one channel, and that was the spillway of memories.
  • Extract from : « The Tyranny of Weakness » by Charles Neville Buck
  • Here they could erect their spillway for the control of the water in the lake above.
  • Extract from : « The Panama Canal » by Frederic Jennings Haskin
  • The first stop was at the concrete work on the spillway dam at Miraflores.
  • Extract from : « The Panama Canal » by Frederic Jennings Haskin
  • The spillway itself contains 225,485 cubic yards of concrete.
  • Extract from : « The Panama Canal » by J. Saxon Mills
  • They are, briefly, the construction of the Gatun dam and its spillway.
  • Extract from : « The Panama Canal and its Makers » by Vaughan Cornish
  • There was a little song of waters gurgling down the spillway that was once only a dry draw choked with wild plum bushes.
  • Extract from : « Winning the Wilderness » by Margaret Hill McCarter
  • Water was flowing over a spillway three feet wide at one end of the dam.
  • Extract from : « The Chief Engineer » by Henry Abbott
  • You can keep the big fish out by screening the spillway at the upper dam.
  • Extract from : « The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work » by Mary Rogers Miller
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