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overfall
/ ˈəʊvəˌfɔːl /
noun
- a turbulent stretch of water caused by marine currents over an underwater ridge
- a mechanism that allows excess water to escape from a dam or lock
- the point at which a sewer or land drainage discharges into the sea or a river
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Croton Lake Dam was first built with ninety feet of masonry overfall, the rest being earth embankment.
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It was most probable that an overfall existed somewhere, and doubtless through a cleft in the granite.
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I think there is not in the world so strange an overfall, nor so wonderful to behold.
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