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Meanings of sluice valve in English

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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.

        descarregador de cheia
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        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
        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
        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
        Usage of sluice valve in English
        1
        A Double-faced Wedge-shaped Sluice -Valve for Main Street Water-pipes.
        James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
        Translations for sluice valve
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