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Definition of Spillways
1. spillway [n] - See also: spillway
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spillways
Literary usage of Spillways
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Technical Reports by Miami Conservancy District (Ohio), Miami Conservancy District (Ohio (1920)
"spillways Since the spillway of a retarding basin should be so located that its
crest will be just above the water level in the basin during the assumed ..."
2. Irrigation Engineering by Arthur Powell Davis, Herbert Michael Wilson (1919)
"Canal spillways.—Any large canal system must for safety be provided with a number
of spillways in order to discharge any surplus water it may contain, ..."
3. Irrigation Engineering by Arthur Powell Davis, Herbert Michael Wilson (1919)
"Canal spillways. — Any large canal system must for safety be provided with a
number of spillways in order to discharge any surplus water it may contain, ..."
4. Irrigation Practice and Engineering by Bernard Alfred Etcheverry (1916)
"CANAL spillways Necessity.—Canal spillways are not extensively used. On many
irrigation projects either none are provided, or their use may be limited to a ..."
5. Water Resources, Present and Future Uses by Frederick Haynes Newell (1920)
"This tower is connected at its top with the roadway on the dam as shown in Pl.
XI. B and Pl. XI. D. spillways. In making plans for any dam, whether masonry ..."
6. Water Resources, Present and Future Uses by Frederick Haynes Newell (1920)
"D. spillways. In making plans for any dam, whether masonry or earth, there must
be ample provision for spillways for passing excess water, especially that ..."
7. Hydro-electric Practice: : a Practical Manual of the Development of Water by Hans August Evald Conrad von Schon (1911)
"Timber spillways have played an important part in the mill-power plants of the
past, and, ... The chief objections to timber spillways are the difficulty of ..."
8. Water-supply Engineering; the Designing, Construction, and Maintenance of by Amory Prescott Folwell (1899)
"spillways. If the reservoir should be approximately full at the time of a
rain-storm, the run-off from this would need to overflow and be wasted. ..."
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