"spillway" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "spill + way",
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      "form": "spillways",
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          "ref": "1993, Loren Runar Anderson, Geotechnical practice in dam rehabilitation",
          "text": "Absence of filtered undrains beneath spillways or behind walls.",
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          "ref": "2023 May 31, “Feature Pictorial”, in RAIL, number 984, page 57, photo caption",
          "text": "On February 24, 319379 crosses the wrought-iron Carr Mill Viaduct with Northern's 1515 Liverpool Lime Street-Wigan North Western service, viewed from a spillway for the reservoir.",
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        "A path designed to take away overflow safely."
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          "overflow",
          "overflow"
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  "word": "spillway"
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