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"
1The words came into her blank, resistant mind like a floodgate opening.
2The addition of her air magick had opened some kind of floodgate.
3Cornelia saw his emotion; the great floodgate of her heart seemed suddenly lifted.
4Meeting his gaze, she unbarred a floodgate of happy tenderness in her eyes.
5He raised the floodgate, and there at last was a way of escape.
1But the guest grabbed the penstock while it was still vibrating.
2I'm going to run a penstock up those falls, and put in a turbine, driving a high-tension alternator.
3Everything ready for the test, Stevens took off his frayed and torn leather coveralls and moccasins and climbed nimbly up the penstock.
4The next day I told Miss Penstock.
5Penstock, a wooden tube for conducting water.
1A Double-faced Wedge-shaped Sluice -Valve for Main Street Water-pipes.
1A concrete head gate was installed at a feasible take-out point on the Crazy Loop.
2Two men had dismounted by the head gate.
3The water was gradually raised till it ran almost flush with the top of the head gate.
4One man knelt near the head gate, then mounted and jumped his horse off after the rest.
5Hey, what if I shut all the head gates while they're digging?
1The man who keeps the water gate there is called Jehan Werbecque.
2He made for the east and the water gate of the Inner Round.
3There is a boat with armed men at the water gate to the abbey.
4A blackbird picked up the note, and sang from a bush by the water gate.
5Evidently they were hurrying down to the water gate.
6The Templar compound was on the edge of the sea but had only a small water gate.
7We got in through the water gate, and then across the first lane before they even saw us.
8They stopped at the water gate, close to the Bridge of Sighs, and Francis and his conductor entered.
9Thou and the rest shall wait at the water gate, and there deliver the provisions and receive the reward.
10The gondola lay at the marble steps of the water gate, held against the stones by two of its crew.
11When he came to the surface inside the water gate, the sentry was at the extreme end of his beat.
12It is high tide, and Elizabeth goes down to the water gate and says the water is rising over the steps.
13An hour later he returned, the prisoners were landed and received by a strong guard of spearmen at the water gate.
14It was held to the last, and proved an invaluable acquisition, because commanding the water gate through which the relief column entered.
15Thus saying, Simon led the way towards the water gate, turning out the guard and bidding them accompany him as he went.
16And the Nathinites dwelt in Ophel, as far as over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stood out.
Translations for water gate