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- noun Plural form of
watergate .
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Examples
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It ended at watergates through which it passed into the harbour of the fortress itself.
False Front Ernsting, Walter 1976
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Stone conduits ran down each street, bringing delicious water to each doorway, and the city was traversed by two mountain streams crossed by bridges cut by watergates.
South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure Cyrus Townsend Brady 1890
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Two blocks of the Danube river were closed at the Ottensheim and Wallsee watergates, it said.
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As it is, its waters do no good; but if one or two dams were made between the two hills on either side of it, as they have done at Riquet, and at Saint-Ferreol -- where they have made immense reservoirs to feed the Languedoc canal -- this barren plain could be fertilized by judicious irrigation through trenches and culverts managed by watergates; sending the water when needed over these lands, and diverting it at other times to our little river.
The Village Rector Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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