tailrace

1. 1.

   a watercourse that carries water away from a mill or water wheel or turbine

   Broaderwatercourse

Other forms of tailrace

plural

tailraces·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tailrace

What does tailrace mean?

tailrace means "a watercourse that carries water away from a mill or water wheel or turbine".

How many syllables are in tailrace?

tailrace has 2 syllables and divides as tail-race under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.