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Meanings of penstock in inglés
portugués
descarregador de cheia catalán
comporta Regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice.
Synonyms
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
A Double-faced Wedge-shaped Sluice -Valve for Main Street Water-pipes.
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.
Usage of penstock in inglés
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.
6
Patrick is with him, his devoted servant, and Miss Penstock has gone to keep house for them.
7
'Dear Miss Penstock,' said I, 'would you rent part of your house?'
8
The penstocks aren't going to be able to handle 500,000 cubic feet per second.
9
There's going to be no penstocks set up this side of the water next year-asfar as I'm concerned.
10
Down stairs, in the saddened empty study, sat little Miss Penstock, the village dressmaker, sewing on our gloomy black dresses.
11
The mining of the penstocks had been completed, and left ready to be blown sky high at a moment's notice.
12
Aunt Abby had gone with little Abby to her new home, and Nat and I were settled at Miss Penstock's.
13
Nat and Miss Penstock and Patrick were in Mr. Maynard's carriage, and Robert and I stood on the ground by the carriage-door.
14
My plan was to have Nat keep on at school, and to take in sewing myself, or to work for Miss Penstock.
15
Miss Penstock's spectacles dropped from her fingers, and she uttered an ejaculation I never heard from her lips on any other occasion.
16
"And that's where you will go back and back and back, as you said about building the penstock?"
Frequent collocations
Translations for penstock
portugués
español
Penstock through the time