Tailrace

Word TAILRACE
Character 8
Hyphenation tail race
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Tailrace"

What do we mean by tailrace?

The part of a millrace below the water wheel through which the spent water flows. noun

A channel for floating away mine tailings and refuse. noun

The channel in which water runs from a mill after driving the wheel. noun

See race, n., 6. noun

The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away. noun

The part of a millrace that carries water away from a water wheel. noun

The part of a hydropower facility that carries water away from a turbine. noun

A watercourse that carries water away from a mill or water wheel or turbine noun

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The word "tailrace" in example sentences

Guadalupe River tailrace is hot right now. 20 rainbows are common. ❋ Tim Romano (2009)

North Dakota's Garrison Dam tailrace is a fishery near Pick City with trout over 20 pounds. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Wade A. Rubia is one of 10 men charged in relation to Operation Click, an undercover investigation into a salmon poaching ring involving the area known as the tailrace in Deer Lake. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For example, last year our wildlife department verified natural reproduction in both rainbows and browns in the Lower Mountain Fork river, which is a fantastic year-round tailrace fishery in SE Oklahoma. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My best day saver was a striper I caught while fishing for trout on the lower Saluda River, a cold tailrace section, in SC. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Hackney] played it conservative the first day, exploded the second day with a heavy tailrace bag, held tough on day 3 with a four-fish, 4-03 bag, then brought home the trophy with a day's-best 5-06 limit. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Well, if we're to be using abandoned tunnels for this scheme, I don't think I'll be rapelling down behind Niagara Falls to enjoy that spectacle, just in case someone decided to tie that particular tailrace into the proceedings. ❋ Unknown (2007)

* GREEN RIVER When other rivers rage with runoff, the Green, tamed by Flaming Gorge Dam, provides a tailrace trout fishery that attracts flyfishers from surrounding states. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A hydroelectric power generator combines several main components: a reservoir to store water, an intake system with control gates and intake pipes called penstocks, turbines driven by the high-energy water flow, electricity generators driven by the turbines, transformers to convert the power output to higher voltage, and an outflow system, or tailrace, to discharge the water. ❋ W. Brain Arthur (2009)

One hotspot is the tailrace below Wilson Dam near Florence, Alabama, which is effectively Pickwick's headwater. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The mill wheel was turning, spilling its load of water into the tailrace, spraying and splattering. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (2003)

The rumbling had been caused by the tailrace reopening, causing rapid changes in pressure all through the submerged levels as the excavation began to rapidly drain. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2001)

He ordered Taylor to stop about ten yards before 'the crossroads', as the staff referred to it, where the entrance tunnel intersected a second cutting, accessing the tailrace on one side. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2001)

They were going in through the tailrace tunnel, that part was decided, but that part only. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2001)

There was a tall lip where the tailrace met the chamber, meaning that a certain volume was required to accumulate before it would spill over and begin draining down into the loch. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2001)

Above the entrance to the tailrace, Ray could also now see a wheel-operated valve on one wall. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2001)

This 75-mile-long coldwater tailrace begins below Wolf Creek Dam near Jamestown, Kentucky, and offers anglers a trout fishery with few rivals and striped bass that grow fat dining on the trout. ❋ Unknown (1999)

In this case, the grate was actually only a mesh to prevent salmon swimming into the tailrace, so the quieter appliance of a crowbar replaced blasting; and unlike most game scenarios, they were able to pull this off without having to evade the molestations of mutant sharks, or even mutant salmon. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2001)

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