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Significats de sluicegate en anglès

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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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Examples for "floodgate"
Examples for "floodgate"
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The words came into her blank, resistant mind like a floodgate opening.
The Beast Within
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The addition of her air magick had opened some kind of floodgate.
Witch heart
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Cornelia saw his emotion; the great floodgate of her heart seemed suddenly lifted.
Beulah
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Meeting his gaze, she unbarred a floodgate of happy tenderness in her eyes.
The Path of a Star
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He raised the floodgate, and there at last was a way of escape.
The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
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But the guest grabbed the penstock while it was still vibrating.
When Egypt Went Broke: A Novel
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I'm going to run a penstock up those falls, and put in a turbine, driving a high-tension alternator.
Spacehounds of IPC
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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
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The next day I told Miss Penstock.
Saxe Holm's Stories / First Series
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Penstock, a wooden tube for conducting water.
The New McGuffey Fourth Reader
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A Double-faced Wedge-shaped Sluice -Valve for Main Street Water-pipes.
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
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A concrete head gate was installed at a feasible take-out point on the Crazy Loop.
The Settling of the Sage
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Two men had dismounted by the head gate.
The Settling of the Sage
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The water was gradually raised till it ran almost flush with the top of the head gate.
The Settling of the Sage
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One man knelt near the head gate, then mounted and jumped his horse off after the rest.
The Settling of the Sage
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Hey, what if I shut all the head gates while they're digging?
Wet desert: tracking down a terrorist on the colorado river
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The man who keeps the water gate there is called Jehan Werbecque.
The White Queen
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He made for the east and the water gate of the Inner Round.
Dancer’s Lament
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There is a boat with armed men at the water gate to the abbey.
The White Queen
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A blackbird picked up the note, and sang from a bush by the water gate.
Wolf hall
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Evidently they were hurrying down to the water gate.
The Fortieth Door
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