Meaning of tailwater | Babel Free

Definitions

The water located immediately downstream from a hydraulic structure, such as a dam, bridge, or culvert.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Like the more renowned Missouri and Henry’s Fork of Montana and Idaho, it is a tailwater fishery; that is, it owes its remarkable fecundity and its population of big wild trout to the cold-water outflow of reservoir impoundment.”

CEFR level