португальский
descarregador de cheia каталонский
comporta Regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice.
Синонимы
Examples for "floodgate"
Examples for "floodgate"
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The words came into her blank, resistant mind like a floodgate opening.
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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.
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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.
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A Double-faced Wedge-shaped Sluice -Valve for Main Street Water-pipes.
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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.
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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?
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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.