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  • noun Alternative form of sluice gate.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice

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Examples

  • In 2002 rapid sluicegate action to prevent future pollution was still needed.

    Srebarna Nature Reserve, Bulgaria 2009

  • Daybreak this morning the Hambleden lockkeeper, one Perry Smith, opens the sluicegate to fill the lock for an early traveler, and a body rushes through it into the lock.

    Leave the Grave Green Deborah Crombie 1995

  • So you stood with Connor on the little concrete apron just upstream of the sluicegate.

    Leave the Grave Green Deborah Crombie 1995

  • Bloke has a few drinks, goes for a stroll on the sluicegate, falls in.

    Leave the Grave Green Deborah Crombie 1995

  • A company of Süderländers who had been ordered to cross the bridge, went right about face, as soon as they came in sight of the Dalecarlians, and did not halt till they reached the sluicegate, which had been drawn up, so that nobody might pass.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

  • "And as for you, Mr Beaver, when you get home you will find your dam finished and mended and all the leaks stopped and a new sluicegate fitted."

    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Lewis, C. S. 1950

  • Then follows after line 14, the drawing of a sluicegate -- _conca_ -- of which the use is explained in the text below it.

    The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 2 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485

  • Then follows after line 14, the drawing of a sluicegate -- _conca_ -- of which the use is explained in the text below it.

    The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485

  • On the other side of the wall on the right is the sluicegate.

    Hyde Daily Photo 2009

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