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Significats de penstock en anglès

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descarregador de cheia
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Regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice.

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espanyol
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Conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate.

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Sinònims
Examples for "floodgate"
Examples for "floodgate"
1
The words came into her blank, resistant mind like a floodgate opening.
The Beast Within
2
The addition of her air magick had opened some kind of floodgate.
Witch heart
3
Cornelia saw his emotion; the great floodgate of her heart seemed suddenly lifted.
Beulah
4
Meeting his gaze, she unbarred a floodgate of happy tenderness in her eyes.
The Path of a Star
5
He raised the floodgate, and there at last was a way of escape.
The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
1
A Double-faced Wedge-shaped Sluice -Valve for Main Street Water-pipes.
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
1
A concrete head gate was installed at a feasible take-out point on the Crazy Loop.
The Settling of the Sage
2
Two men had dismounted by the head gate.
The Settling of the Sage
3
The water was gradually raised till it ran almost flush with the top of the head gate.
The Settling of the Sage
4
One man knelt near the head gate, then mounted and jumped his horse off after the rest.
The Settling of the Sage
5
Hey, what if I shut all the head gates while they're digging?
Wet desert: tracking down a terrorist on the colorado river
1
The man who keeps the water gate there is called Jehan Werbecque.
The White Queen
2
He made for the east and the water gate of the Inner Round.
Dancer’s Lament
3
There is a boat with armed men at the water gate to the abbey.
The White Queen
4
A blackbird picked up the note, and sang from a bush by the water gate.
Wolf hall
5
Evidently they were hurrying down to the water gate.
The Fortieth Door
Ús de penstock en anglès
1
But the guest grabbed the penstock while it was still vibrating.
When Egypt Went Broke: A Novel
2
I'm going to run a penstock up those falls, and put in a turbine, driving a high-tension alternator.
Spacehounds of IPC
3
Everything ready for the test, Stevens took off his frayed and torn leather coveralls and moccasins and climbed nimbly up the penstock.
Spacehounds of IPC
4
The next day I told Miss Penstock.
Saxe Holm's Stories / First Series
5
Penstock, a wooden tube for conducting water.
The New McGuffey Fourth Reader
6
Patrick is with him, his devoted servant, and Miss Penstock has gone to keep house for them.
Saxe Holm's Stories / First Series
7
'Dear Miss Penstock,' said I, 'would you rent part of your house?'
Saxe Holm's Stories / First Series
8
The penstocks aren't going to be able to handle 500,000 cubic feet per second.
Wet desert: tracking down a terrorist on the colorado river
9
There's going to be no penstocks set up this side of the water next year-asfar as I'm concerned.
The Man in the Twilight
10
Down stairs, in the saddened empty study, sat little Miss Penstock, the village dressmaker, sewing on our gloomy black dresses.
Saxe Holm's Stories / First Series
11
The mining of the penstocks had been completed, and left ready to be blown sky high at a moment's notice.
The Man in the Twilight
12
Aunt Abby had gone with little Abby to her new home, and Nat and I were settled at Miss Penstock's.
Saxe Holm's Stories / First Series
13
Nat and Miss Penstock and Patrick were in Mr. Maynard's carriage, and Robert and I stood on the ground by the carriage-door.
Saxe Holm's Stories / First Series
14
My plan was to have Nat keep on at school, and to take in sewing myself, or to work for Miss Penstock.
Saxe Holm's Stories / First Series
15
Miss Penstock's spectacles dropped from her fingers, and she uttered an ejaculation I never heard from her lips on any other occasion.
Saxe Holm's Stories / First Series
16
"And that's where you will go back and back and back, as you said about building the penstock?"
Spacehounds of IPC
Translations for penstock
Penstock a través del temps