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spillway

spillway noun: a path designed to take away overflow safely.

Noun

spillway (plural spillways)

  1. A path designed to take away overflow safely.
    • Absence of filtered undrains beneath spillways or behind walls.1993, Loren Runar Anderson, Geotechnical practice in dam rehabilitation
    • 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

spillway meaning in Tamil

spillway in Tamil

கலிங்கு, வழிகால், வௌளக்கால்

Forms of spillway

pluralspillways

Plural of spillway: spillways

Origin of spillway

From spill + way.

Questions about spillway

What does spillway mean?
Spillway means a path designed to take away overflow safely.
What is spillway in Tamil?
Spillway in Tamil is கலிங்கு, வழிகால், வௌளக்கால். See Spillway meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is spillway?
Spillway is a noun.
What is the plural of spillway?
The plural of spillway is spillways.

Words near spillway in the dictionary

  1. spills one's seed
  2. spills out
  3. spills over
  4. spills the beans
  5. spills the tea
  6. spillway
  7. spillways
  8. spilly
  9. Spilman
  10. Spilmans
  11. spiloma

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spillway (page history and authors); spillway (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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