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Spillway

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A path designed to take away overflow safely.

    "Absence of filtered undrains beneath spillways or behind walls."

  2. 2
    a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction wordnet

Etymology

From spill + way.

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