| Tailrace 1. (n.) See Race. 2. (n.) The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away. Thesaurus Entries arroyo, bed, canal, canalization, channel, conduit, course, creek bed, crimp, culvert, cut, dike, ditch, donga, dry bed, duct, entrenchment, flume, fosse, goffer, gulch, gully, gullyhole, gutter, ha-ha, headrace, irrigation ditch, kennel, moat, nullah, pleat, race, river bed, riverway, runnel, sluice, spillbox, spillway, stream bed, streamway, sunk fence, swash, swash channel, tailrace, trench, trough, wadi, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, waterworks |