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Floodgate
Answer for the clue "Floodgate ", 6 letters:
sluice
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate [syn: sluiceway , penstock ] v. pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef" [syn: sluice down ] irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth" ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate. 2 Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. 3 The stream ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sluice \Sluice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sluiced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sluicing .] To emit by, or as by, flood gates. [R.] --Milton. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. --Howitt. He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing ...
Usage examples of sluice.
That was because his father had known the laws of engineering and had opened the sluices at the head of the aqueduct exactly eighteen hours before the ceremony was due to reach its climax, and had ridden back into the city faster than the water could chase him.
Eventually Bando climbs the hill, closes the sluice gate, and comes to my outdoor kitchen.
He wondered when Corvinus and Becco had shut off the sluices at Abellinum.
But unless he sent Corvinus back to Abellinum almost immediately, Becco would follow his instruction, wait twelve hours, and reopen the sluices during the sixth watch of the night.
It was still a lot of work to get through in a night, before the first tongues of fresh water reached them from Abellinum, after Becco had reopened the sluices.
The Dilling ham lake drained, by way of a small stream and a sluice gate, into the River De ben, and Polly slipped through the little gate and took the riverside path.
Force, Ganner angles a shard of the Great Door to form a durasteel shield that sluices the acid to one side, so that it splashes to one wall.
It was a gutter, originally for shit and now for rainwater, a six-inch channel between the paving slabs that sluiced through grilles into the undercity at the furthest end.
I was trying to call her back to me, with a view to attaching a rope to her so she did not rush indoors before I had had a chance to sluice her down, when Nux found new excitement.
Violet enjoyed the beauty of every form displayed, but her eyes kept coming back to Mac, savoring each time he dropped beneath the surface to rewet his skull and came back up, water sluicing off his body, muscles rippling across his back as he pushed his hair off his forehead.
In their reflective surface, she could see Rud, his long length folded into the tub, sluicing his arms and shoulders with the steaming hot water.
She glanced up the long, straight, wooden sluice to the tower where the sledders began their runs in winter, remembering the feeling of shooting down toward the frozen river, gathering speed for the launch onto the ice.
Water trickled over rocks, sluicing down from highlands glimpsed beyond the sparse forest cover.
Jerna whispered above the prince, sluicing down on the breeze to curl protectively around his shoulders.
He looked around, to see a flood spiraling down on him, white water sluicing through an invisible pipe, a snake made of water.