Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A channel for an overflow of water, as from a reservoir.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A passage for surplus water from a dam.
Wiktionary
- n. A path designed to take away overflow safely.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction
Etymologies
- spill + way (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The spillway is located on the right bank, and it has 14 segmented sluice-gates with a total discharge rate of 62,200 cubic meters per second.”
“The spillway is a good place for rice and crawfish, and Marty Frey said that if it floods only once every 30 years or so, he believes it is well worth continuing to work there.”
Voice of America: Mississippi Flooding Harms Agriculture in Several US States
“This intentional flood is more controlled, however, and residents are warned by the Corps each year in letters, reminding them of the possibility of opening the spillway, which is 4,000 feet long and has 125 gate bays.”
The Wall Street Journal: Louisiana Floodgate Opens, Diverts Mississippi
“Then we went out and bought Bond Park and made a deal with the county that the spillway could be a part of the park.”
“The spillway, which is here to the side, is 143.8 meters wide and 427.8 meters long.”
“The spillway is a concrete-lined opening cut through a hill of rock near the center of the dam.”
“This intentional flood is more controlled, however, and residents are warned by the corps each year in written letters, reminding them of the possibility of opening the spillway, which is 4,000 feet long and has 125 gate bays.”
“This intentional flood is more controlled, however, and residents are warned by the corps each year in written letters, reminding them of the possibility of opening the spillway, which is about 1,200 metres long and has 125 gate bays.”
“The spillway is a channel designed to handle an emergency volume of water on the creek, which is a tributary of the James River.”
“When the saw was still the water overflowed the "stop-logs" by the "spillway" into the pond below.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘spillway’.
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ENVI - water protection
population equiva..., absorptive proper..., abstraction rate, abundance, acaricide, accidental pollution, admixture, adsorption, agglomeration, algicide, alkalinity, angiosperms and 398 more...
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Dam
List of words pertaining to dams and other means of impounding and directing water; their names, parts, pieces, passageways.
gage-weir, rafter-dam, bear-trap dam, tripsill, splash-dam, flood-dam, flooding-dam, sluiceway, spillway, millrace, headrace, sluice-valve and 38 more...
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ways
As in routes, avenues & tracts. Omitting, e.g., halfway, anyway, sideways, folkway, Haddaway. (many of those are found thisways)
alleyway, Broadway, highway, hatchway, archway, thruway, railway, doorway, runway, skyway, hallway, shaftway and 79 more...
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simple & useful2
nitwit, roguish, racketeering, mannerisms, aerialist, mangling, ineradicable, rickety, blatantly, libidinal, bungalow, axiomatic and 96 more...
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