Fall structure with a fixed chamber in which the water level changes.
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Examples for "lock"
Examples for "lock"
1
Sydney's lock-out laws were driven by the New South Wales state government.
2
I found it in the lock last night and brought it in.
3
The key was in the lock on the outside of the door.
4
To his great surprise he heard the lock click, a moment later.
5
I had no trouble in fitting it or in turning the lock.
1
I worked in the claim while my partner attended to the sluice-box.
2
A sluice is basically a long rectangular box open at both ends.
3
A little before sundown he ordered the sluice-gates of the dam opened.
4
Already men with pike-poles were guiding the sullen timbers toward the sluice-way.
5
He cleaned up the sluice-boxes late last fall after the first freeze.
1
The Olmsted lock and dam replacement project on the lower Ohio River is commonly cited.
2
The barges are loose and has the potential to hit the lock and dam 16.
3
Closing a lock and dam and other measures should keep the carp from entering the Great Lakes but would also block shippers.
4
Last year, a Lockport, Illinois, lock and dam facility south of Chicago saw a 280-foot section of a canal wall collapse, disrupting commercial navigation.
5
NOTE 2: The Stratton Lock and Dam is closed for the season.
1
We approach a canal lock, into which we haphazardly squash.
2
Nearly drowned in a flooded canal lock, though shallow water blackout is actually not unpleasant.
3
Nearly drowned in a flooded canal lock.
4
Britain's smallest canal lock Fenny Stratford Lock has a drop of about 1ft, which makes its existence appealingly daft.
5
A new colony of water voles has been captured on film using hidden cameras at a canal lock in Wiltshire.
1
Sally has fifteen pounds locked up in case of need.'
2
Fifteen hundred pound in a black box, fifteen hundred pound locked up, fifteen hundred pound put away and hid!
3
"I'm putting the God- pounding lock on the God-pounding door, see?" He banged the door shut, immediately sealing Jack up in the darkness.
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