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Meanings of pound lock in English

Russian
шлюз общего назначения
Portuguese
eclusa
Spanish
esclusa
Catalan
rescloses
Wikidata

Fall structure with a fixed chamber in which the water level changes.

        шлюз общего назначения
        Synonyms
        Examples for "lock"
        Examples for "lock"
        1
        Sydney's lock-out laws were driven by the New South Wales state government.
        Radio NZ
        2
        I found it in the lock last night and brought it in.
        The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields
        3
        The key was in the lock on the outside of the door.
        The Light That Lures
        4
        To his great surprise he heard the lock click, a moment later.
        The preacher
        5
        I had no trouble in fitting it or in turning the lock.
        The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange
        1
        I worked in the claim while my partner attended to the sluice-box.
        Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer
        2
        A sluice is basically a long rectangular box open at both ends.
        Empty mile
        3
        A little before sundown he ordered the sluice-gates of the dam opened.
        The Riverman
        4
        Already men with pike-poles were guiding the sullen timbers toward the sluice-way.
        The Riverman
        5
        He cleaned up the sluice-boxes late last fall after the first freeze.
        The Lady Doc
        1
        The Olmsted lock and dam replacement project on the lower Ohio River is commonly cited.
        Reuters
        2
        The barges are loose and has the potential to hit the lock and dam 16.
        Radio NZ
        3
        Closing a lock and dam and other measures should keep the carp from entering the Great Lakes but would also block shippers.
        Reuters
        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.
        Reuters
        5
        NOTE 2: The Stratton Lock and Dam is closed for the season.
        Chicago sun times
        1
        We approach a canal lock, into which we haphazardly squash.
        The South African
        2
        Nearly drowned in a flooded canal lock, though shallow water blackout is actually not unpleasant.
        The Guardian
        3
        Nearly drowned in a flooded canal lock.
        The Guardian
        4
        Britain's smallest canal lock Fenny Stratford Lock has a drop of about 1ft, which makes its existence appealingly daft.
        The Guardian
        5
        A new colony of water voles has been captured on film using hidden cameras at a canal lock in Wiltshire.
        BBC
        Usage of pound lock in English
        1
        Sally has fifteen pounds locked up in case of need.'
        The Amazing Marriage — Volume 2
        2
        Fifteen hundred pound in a black box, fifteen hundred pound locked up, fifteen hundred pound put away and hid!
        Bleak House
        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.
        The talisman