Synonyms for spillway
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : spil-wey |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈspɪlˌweɪ |
Top 10 synonyms for spillway Other synonyms for the word spillway
Définition of spillway
Origin :- 1889, from spill + way.
- As in overflowing : noun overflow
- As in watercourse : noun waterway
- As in flume : noun chute
- 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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