tailwater

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9

Definition of tailwater

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The water located immediately downstream from a hydraulic structure, such as a dam, bridge, or culvert.
    “Like the more renowned Missouri and Henry’s Fork of Montana and Idaho, it is a tailwater fishery; that is, it owes its remarkable fecundity and its population of big wild trout to the cold-water outflow of reservoir impoundment.”

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Etymology

From tail + water.

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