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Meanings of valve house in English

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Structure housing sluice gates, valves, or pumps for a dam.

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Examples for "gate house"
Examples for "gate house"
1
The Jacobean gate house still stands unrestored at the end of the avenue.
Seaward Sussex: The South Downs from End to End
2
After an eighth of a mile she came to an adobe gate house.
Naughty neighbor
3
The gate house and ornate stone entrance will be preserved.
The Irish Times
4
There were no guards in the gate house and only two before the drawbridge.
Spellwright
5
We live in an old gate house, and I don't know anything about city apartments.
Hush: a novel
1
The vats are also provided with false bottoms , outlet cocks, steam pipes and so forth.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28