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tailraces

tailraces is the plural of tailrace.

Meaning of tailrace

Noun

tailrace (plural tailraces)

  1. (archaic) The part of a millrace that carries water away from a water wheel.
    Synonyms:
    waygate
  2. The part of a hydropower facility that carries water away from a turbine.

Questions about tailraces

What is tailraces the plural of?
Tailraces is the plural of tailrace.

Words near tailraces in the dictionary

  1. tailplug
  2. tailplugs
  3. tailpole
  4. tailpoles
  5. tailrace
  6. tailraces
  7. tailridden
  8. tailride
  9. tailrides
  10. tailriding
  11. tailrode

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tailraces (page history and authors); tailrace (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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