Crossword-Solution: SPILLWAY 8 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Brace, the consulting engineer, who showed her on the table-cloth at dessert with three forks and a spoon the method in which the overflow of the spillway of the Gatun Dam is regulated, felt assured, from the way she leaned her face on her hand sideways and said, "How extraordinary!" that she had the brain of an engineer.

Hardly had he slipped off his boots and tarpaulins when MacFarlane, in mackintosh and long rubber boots, splashed in: “Breen,” said his Chief, loosening the top button of his storm coat and threshing the water from his cap: Jack was on his feet in an instant: “Yes, sir.” “I wish you would take a look at the boulevard spillway.

Grabbing a shovel from a railroad employee, he called to his men and began digging a trench on the tunnel end of the “fill” to form a temporary spillway should the top of the flood reach the crest of the road bed.

The morning "touch" with headquarters over, therefore, I scrambled away across the silent yawning locks and the trainless and workless dam to the Spillway, over which already some overflow from the lake was escaping to the Caribbean.

Then with "sour" oranges for thirst and nothing for hunger--for Lorenzo has no restaurant--we turned to paddle our way homeward up the Chagres, that bears the salt taste of the sea clear to the Spillway.