Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tailrace"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tailrace \Tail"race`\, n.
1. See {Race}, n., 6.
2. (Mining) The channel in which tailings, suspended in
water, are conducted away.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
tailrace
n : a watercourse that carries water away from a mill or water
wheel or turbine
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