tailrace

IPA: tˈeɪɫrʌs

noun

  • (archaic) The part of a millrace that carries water away from a water wheel.
  • The part of a hydropower facility that carries water away from a turbine.
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Examples of "tailrace" in Sentences

  • Guadalupe River tailrace is hot right now. 20 rainbows are common.
  • North Dakota's Garrison Dam tailrace is a fishery near Pick City with trout over 20 pounds.
  • My best day saver was a striper I caught while fishing for trout on the lower Saluda River, a cold tailrace section, in SC.
  • * 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • [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.
  • 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.

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