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spillway en · NOUN

Etymology

From spill + way.

Meanings

  1. A path designed to take away overflow safely.
    • On February 24, 319379 crosses the wrought-iron Carr Mill Viaduct with Northern's 1515 Liverpool Lime Street-Wigan North Western service, viewed from a spillway for the reservoir. 2023 May 31, “Feature Pictorial”, in RAIL, number 984, page 57, photo caption:
    • Absence of filtered undrains beneath spillways or behind walls. 1993, Loren Runar Anderson, Geotechnical practice in dam rehabilitation:

Forms

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Translations (8)

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