: a race for conveying water away from a point of industrial application (such as a waterwheel or turbine) after use
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Pickwick is simply a great place to fish, and that’s on the lake or in the tailrace below its dam.
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Dave Shively, Outside Online, 13 Aug. 2025
Over the course of several days this April, Dahl fished a deep tailrace of the Cannon River just below a dam.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2025
The Canyon Lake tailrace is the oldest of all the stocking sites.
—Matt Williams, Dallas News, 23 Dec. 2022
Then there’s the marvel that is the tailrace tunnel (the channel that discharged the tailwater back to the river), built in the early 1900s with little more than pickaxes, shovels and rudimentary dynamite.
—Laura Randall, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
Actually, the tailrace of all of the TVA dams in Alabama—Guntersville, Wheeler and Wilson—are productive smallmouth fisheries.
—Frank Sargeant, al, 7 Nov. 2021
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Dave Shively, Outside Online, 13 Aug. 2025
Over the course of several days this April, Dahl fished a deep tailrace of the Cannon River just below a dam.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2025
The Canyon Lake tailrace is the oldest of all the stocking sites.
—Matt Williams, Dallas News, 23 Dec. 2022
Then there’s the marvel that is the tailrace tunnel (the channel that discharged the tailwater back to the river), built in the early 1900s with little more than pickaxes, shovels and rudimentary dynamite.
—Laura Randall, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
Actually, the tailrace of all of the TVA dams in Alabama—Guntersville, Wheeler and Wilson—are productive smallmouth fisheries.
—Frank Sargeant, al, 7 Nov. 2021
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“Tailrace.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tailrace. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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