spillway
spill
wasteweir
gullet
streamflow
sand fence
raceway
race
gutter
millrun
millrace
rigol
river bottom
riverbed
streambed
creek bed
spurnwater
waterspout
headrace
limbers
washway
grip
navigation
sluiceway
mill race
chine
overtopping
palaeodrainage
tideway
fret
sleeve
corrivation
off-flow
outfall
narrows
emissary
watercourse
levee
head gate
babble
intercanal
rond
downdrainage
by-wash
bifurcation
Tainter gate
weir
impoundment
valley
rheocrene
shutter dam
breakaway
outdraft
shipway
run through
washaway
stank
lode
drock
flooder
updrainage
in the wake of
lock
dalles
lock chamber
narrow sea
dam failure
thalweg
ship canal
derivation
tail gate
paleostream
culvert
lockage
intracanal
damlike
entanglement
saddle
gurt
channel
tailrace
creeky
scupper
backwater
canalside
floodshed
scroll
washout
thoroughfare
canal basin
floodwall
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English words for 'a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction'

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