📚 noun • entry_id 56952
sluice gate
Meanings (ES + gloss)
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A portal which may be opened or closed to allow or prevent the passage of water through a man-made channel.
"Has the miller a strong high dam to his pond, and a good stout sluice-gate at the end?"
He also built two dams and a sluice gate that frees dammed water to operate a 14-foot undershot waterwheel.
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