Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The gate or a sluice; a water-gate; a flood-gate; a sluice.
- n. The gate which closes a sluiceway in a splash-dam.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of sluice gate.
Examples
“It was only in the 20th century, Mr. Schoenfeld says, that newspapers became a sluice-gate for secrets.”
“All it needs is this short flume sketched in here to bring the water down, and a sluice-gate to feed the main canal that follows this bench we are on.”
“Pedestrian, in knickerbockers, is assured that, if he waits half a day or so, he may get an attic -- "Back of se house; fine view of se sluice-gate and cemetery.”
“Thus, beginning with a trickle, the flow of her good humor presently broadened to the width of the sluice-gate, as she entered upon an absorbing scrutiny of the quaint old house which by tradition had served one of the earlier governors.”
“He was only a little fellow eight years old, but like every child in that country, he knew of the danger in which he lived, and how at any time if he should see any sign of water coming in through an embankment, or a sluice-gate, where it ought not, it was his bounden duty immediately to give the alarm.”
“If the wild gamble of the Hudson Bay scheme were to rush through to commercial success -- if the limitless wheat-lands of Canada were to pour their mighty torrent of life into Europe through the channel of Hudson Bay -- it would be Lars Larssen who would hold the key of the sluice-gate.”
“Joan put a sluice-gate gently back into the stream.”
“Then all of a sudden the sluice-gate of speech was pulled up.”
“There was a long, long silence, which the suck and gurgle of water fretting a crazy sluice-gate had to themselves.”
“It seemed that some astral sluice-gate was raised; a dreadful sense of foreboding for the first time flooded my mind.”
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