Regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice.
Conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate.
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 ? "
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