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Significados de head gate en inglés

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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.
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 Double-faced Wedge-shaped Sluice -Valve for Main Street Water-pipes.
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
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
Uso de head gate en inglés
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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
6
The flow downstream from the head gates had increased noticeably.
Wet desert: tracking down a terrorist on the colorado river
7
We shut the head gates, the same as when he blew the California Aqueduct.
Wet desert: tracking down a terrorist on the colorado river
8
Grant pointed to a gravel patch near the main head gates on the west side.
Wet desert: tracking down a terrorist on the colorado river
9
Opening a few head gates wouldn't have done that.
Wet desert: tracking down a terrorist on the colorado river
10
Grant looked downstream from the main head gates to see if he could detect if the water had risen yet.
Wet desert: tracking down a terrorist on the colorado river
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"Speaking of the structure, you think I should open my head gates again?"
Wet desert: tracking down a terrorist on the colorado river
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In the ten minutes since they closed the head gates, the bulldozers had lowered the 70 foot-wide notch another couple of feet.
Wet desert: tracking down a terrorist on the colorado river
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In spite of its length, the dam looked unimpressive, only thirty-one feet tall in the middle, with slightly larger concrete head gates on both sides.
Wet desert: tracking down a terrorist on the colorado river
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