Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The part of a millrace below the water wheel through which the spent water flows.
- noun A channel for floating away mine tailings and refuse.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The channel in which water runs from a mill after driving the wheel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
race , n., 6. - noun (Mining) The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic The part of a
millrace that carrieswater away from awater wheel . - noun The part of a
hydropower facility that carrieswater away from aturbine .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a watercourse that carries water away from a mill or water wheel or turbine
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Examples
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Guadalupe River tailrace is hot right now. 20 rainbows are common.
Where is the Fishing Year's Best, Now? Tim Romano 2009
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North Dakota's Garrison Dam tailrace is a fishery near Pick City with trout over 20 pounds.
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Wade A. Rubia is one of 10 men charged in relation to Operation Click, an undercover investigation into a salmon poaching ring involving the area known as the tailrace in Deer Lake.
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[Hackney] played it conservative the first day, exploded the second day with a heavy tailrace bag, held tough on day 3 with a four-fish, 4-03 bag, then brought home the trophy with a day's-best 5-06 limit.
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My best day saver was a striper I caught while fishing for trout on the lower Saluda River, a cold tailrace section, in SC.
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For example, last year our wildlife department verified natural reproduction in both rainbows and browns in the Lower Mountain Fork river, which is a fantastic year-round tailrace fishery in SE Oklahoma.
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My best day saver was a striper I caught while fishing for trout on the lower Saluda River, a cold tailrace section, in SC.
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For example, last year our wildlife department verified natural reproduction in both rainbows and browns in the Lower Mountain Fork river, which is a fantastic year-round tailrace fishery in SE Oklahoma.
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Well, if we're to be using abandoned tunnels for this scheme, I don't think I'll be rapelling down behind Niagara Falls to enjoy that spectacle, just in case someone decided to tie that particular tailrace into the proceedings.
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* GREEN RIVER When other rivers rage with runoff, the Green, tamed by Flaming Gorge Dam, provides a tailrace trout fishery that attracts flyfishers from surrounding states.
A STATE-BY-STATE GUIDE TO THE HOTTEST LAKES, RIVERS, STREAMS, AND HONEY HOLES IN AMERICA 2007
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