spillway
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]spillway (plural spillways)
- A path designed to take away overflow safely.
- 1993, Loren Runar Anderson, Geotechnical practice in dam rehabilitation:
- Absence of filtered undrains beneath spillways or behind walls.
- 2023 May 31, “Feature Pictorial”, in RAIL, number 984, page 57, photo caption:
- 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.