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 "
1 The words came into her blank, resistant mind like a floodgate opening.
2 The addition of her air magick had opened some kind of floodgate .
3 Cornelia saw his emotion; the great floodgate of her heart seemed suddenly lifted.
4 Meeting his gaze, she unbarred a floodgate of happy tenderness in her eyes.
5 He raised the floodgate , and there at last was a way of escape.
1 But the guest grabbed the penstock while it was still vibrating.
2 I'm going to run a penstock up those falls, and put in a turbine, driving a high-tension alternator.
3 Everything ready for the test, Stevens took off his frayed and torn leather coveralls and moccasins and climbed nimbly up the penstock .
4 The next day I told Miss Penstock .
5 Penstock , a wooden tube for conducting water.
1 A concrete head gate was installed at a feasible take-out point on the Crazy Loop.
2 Two men had dismounted by the head gate .
3 The water was gradually raised till it ran almost flush with the top of the head gate .
4 One man knelt near the head gate , then mounted and jumped his horse off after the rest.
5 Hey, what if I shut all the head gates while they're digging?
1 The man who keeps the water gate there is called Jehan Werbecque.
2 He made for the east and the water gate of the Inner Round.
3 There is a boat with armed men at the water gate to the abbey.
4 A blackbird picked up the note, and sang from a bush by the water gate .
5 Evidently they were hurrying down to the water gate .
1 A Double-faced Wedge-shaped Sluice -Valve for Main Street Water-pipes.
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Translations for sluice valve