The water in a mill race below the wheel, or in a canal below a lock.
（磨房水车或沟渠的）下游水，尾水
the pewter calm of the tailwater
count nountrout thrive in the dam's tailwaters
Example sentencesExamples
If the tailwater is fairly constant, you can set a fixed tailwater elevation for each pond.
Instead, West Virginia argued that the boundaries of the projects should be extended to permit fishing in the tailwater below the powerhouse.
While a lower section of the river might be covered with ice, the tailwater remains fishable all year.
From 9pm, on January 2, to 9am, on January 4, the headwater at Boulters had risen ten inches, and the tailwater by 17 ins - this represented the peak at Boulters.
A few changes in stocking and fishing regulations will help increase the average size of rainbow trout and maintain trophy brown trout in the Beaver tailwater, which were goals identified during the public input workshops.
Definition of tailwater in US English:
tailwater
noun-ˌwätər
The water in a tailrace.
the pewter calm of the tailwater
count nountrout thrive in the dam's tailwaters
Example sentencesExamples
A few changes in stocking and fishing regulations will help increase the average size of rainbow trout and maintain trophy brown trout in the Beaver tailwater, which were goals identified during the public input workshops.
If the tailwater is fairly constant, you can set a fixed tailwater elevation for each pond.
From 9pm, on January 2, to 9am, on January 4, the headwater at Boulters had risen ten inches, and the tailwater by 17 ins - this represented the peak at Boulters.
While a lower section of the river might be covered with ice, the tailwater remains fishable all year.
Instead, West Virginia argued that the boundaries of the projects should be extended to permit fishing in the tailwater below the powerhouse.