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Answer for the clue "A channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction ", 5 letters:
spill

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) A mess of something that has been dropped. 2 A fall or stumble. 3 A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire. 4 A slender piece of anything. 5 # A peg or ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spill \Spill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spilled , or Spilt ; p. pr. & vb. n. Spilling .] [OE. spillen,sually, to destroy, AS. spillan, spildan, to destroy; akin to Icel. spilla to destroy, Sw. spilla to spill, Dan. spilde, G. & D. spillen to squander, OHG. spildan.] ...

Usage examples of spill.

After passing through the catalytic reactors, the rare hydrogen allotrope was siphoned off, while the waste gases spilled back out from the hot stacks.

Tess took up the torn dress, an off-white satin gown with fine lace applique spilling over the shoulders into a free fall down the back, over the bustle, and along the edge of the train.

Covering him from the waist down, they had laid a pall of Haldane crimson worked with the royal arms, supple with silken embroidery and applique, spilling off the sides and end of the bier and over the shoulders of the knights at that end.

The top of the shaft was battlemented, and she caught splashes of color between the teeth of the stone scarps, as if flowers were massed there and spilling blossoms against the whiteness of the tower.

Somewhere a lifetime from her present moment, raucous piano music and laughter spilled out of batwing doors onto a dusty street bathed in the light of a Midwestern moon.

Telling herself that dealing with his anger herself was better than risking it spilling over to Billie was one thing.

The avalanche of gold that Blanco Ferndndez had brought forth from a nearby vault lay undisturbed where it had spilled.

Small items blew off the dresser and nightstand, and the basket flew off the table, spilling its contents across the room.

Beauty had planted there spilt over the corners of the beds at their feet, and the roses bloomed everywhere round them, silhouetted in the faint light, and the white roses were shimmers in the gloom.

I would have travelled a thousand miles for the adventures which a bounteous road that day spilled carelessly into my willing hands.

The yards, first loosed to spill the wind, were hauled round and bowsed tight so that he could pull away from the shore on a starboard tack.

He spilt the browst in the brewhouse, and made a spectacle of himself with pease-meal in the girnel.

Lilies were rocking on the sluggish reaches of the streams, and where the current quickened, tall wheels were lifting water for the fields in circles of brimming and spilling pockets.

At the sound of his voice Brine was startled and almost spilled his coffee.

If the Colonel sings, if the shy, bald Admiral is browbeaten into spilling the beans to Congress, who will look after them then?