Thesaurus / spillway
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- aqueduct
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How to use spillway in a sentence
Fluctuations in the lake due to floods are controlled by an immense spillway dam built of concrete.
THE WONDER BOOK OF KNOWLEDGEVARIOUSThe spillway is so arranged that as the level of the water in the lake rises the discharging capacity increases.
THE PANAMA CANALFREDERIC JENNINGS HASKINThe spillway, too, if enlarged by explosives, would make a nasty hole to build up.
BOY SCOUTS IN THE CANAL ZONEG. HARVEY RALPHSONThe spillway is a concrete-lined opening cut through a hill of rock near the center of the dam.
BOY SCOUTS IN THE CANAL ZONEG. HARVEY RALPHSONBehind was the bubbling, leaping flow of the spillway itself, and Gatun Dam.
RAIDERS INVISIBLEDESMOND WINTER HALLThe noise of its equalizers will be covered by the water coming through the spillway.
RAIDERS INVISIBLEDESMOND WINTER HALLHe washed his fish in the dam's tiny spillway and, filling the wooden dish with salt, he rolled the split whitefish in dry salt.
THE SPELL OF THE WHITE STURGEONJAMES ARTHUR KJELGAARDThe upper end of the tank, full width, was a broad spillway, sheened with an inch of smooth-slipping water.
THE LITTLE LADY OF THE BIG HOUSEJACK LONDONShe could hear him talking over the telephone to Hanley about the spillway of the Buckeye dam.
THE LITTLE LADY OF THE BIG HOUSEJACK LONDONHe hasn't done it; he has contented himself with marking out that dead-line you can see over there just above our spillway.
THE KING OF ARCADIAFRANCIS LYNDEWORDS RELATED TO SPILLWAY
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.