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overfall

/ ˈəʊəˌɔː /

noun

  1. a turbulent stretch of water caused by marine currents over an underwater ridge
  2. a mechanism that allows excess water to escape from a dam or lock
  3. the point at which a sewer or land drainage discharges into the sea or a river
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Biden also specified that to pay for his overfall infrastructure commitments, including climate, he would reverse parts of Trump's corporate tax reductions, raising the rate from 21% to 28%.

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He determined this time to carry out his old plan of searching for a passage up Davis’s “overfall”—so-called in allusion to the overfall of the tide which Davis had observed rushing through the strait.

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The swell was unaccountably high, and the seas were curling over each other and breaking all round us just as if we were in a tide-race or overfall.

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Overfall, ō′vėr-fawl, n. a rippling or race in the sea, where, by the peculiarities of bottom, the water is propelled with immense force, esp. when the wind and tide, or current, set strongly together.

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The DAM at the Croton River is 40 feet high, and the overfall 251 feet in length.

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