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Meanings of penstock in English

Portuguese
descarregador de cheia
Catalan
comporta

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

        descarregador de cheia
        Portuguese
        duto
        Catalan
        canal
        Spanish
        tubería forzada

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

              duto
              Usage of penstock in English
              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 through the time