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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction [syn: spillway, spill, wasteweir]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1889 a passage for surplus water to run over or around an obstruction (as a dam)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a passage for surplus water from a dam.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Spillway Spill"way`, n. A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.

Moby Thesaurus

aqueduct, arroyo, bed, canal, creek bed, culvert, donga, dry bed, flume, gulch, gully, gullyhole, headrace, irrigation ditch, nullah, race, river bed, riverway, runnel, sluice, spillbox, stream bed, streamway, swash, swash channel, tailrace, wadi, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, waterworks