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Artificial channel for water
Answer for the clue "Artificial channel for water ", 9 letters:
sluiceway
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Word definitions for sluiceway in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a man-made channel designed to redirect excess water
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sluiceway \Sluice"way`\, n. An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate [syn: sluice , penstock ]
Usage examples of sluiceway.
The Elhim have filled it with water from the lake and built a sluiceway from the cistern into the cave.
On the day Narim brought you to me, he opened the sluiceway so it would fill the pool inside the cave.
Then, blundering about and bellowing like a wounded rhino, he staggered out front and shoveled a big sluiceway in the recently patched ditch bank, allowing almost the entire acequia flow to cascade into his already soggy front vega.
The gradual downward slope of the sluiceway was at first barely perceptible, but he was aware of it because he had passed that way many times before.
A noisome grey torrent flowed out over its threshold and on down through a stone sluiceway to the sea beyond.
Cymrian era, an enormous sluiceway had been constructed, a floodgate of a sort being formed from the natural curve of the coastline, to keep the tides from damaging the ships in port.
In minutes I hear the water gushing down the sluiceway, bubbling and chortling along until it spills out the end and strikes the paddles of the wheel just forward of its highest point.
As they coasted up the sluiceway, he thought on just what he should say to Qiwi Lin Lisolet.
Compounding this effect, the river also narrows here, creating a sort of sluiceway that would knock down skyscrapers if they were placed in its path.
Eastward the russet level is broken by the columnar silhouette of the light house, and again, beyond it, by some puny scrub timber, above which rises the angular ruddy mass of the old brick fort, whose ditches swarm with crabs, and whose sluiceways are half choked by obsolete cannon-shot, now thickly covered with incrustation of oyster shells.
The sluiceways were controlled, the blood saved, and color and health returned.
Jack Vizzard, the watchman, threaded those sluiceways armed with a shot-gun.
They drove by in interminable files of grey, making sluiceways of every cut and drenching continually the men of the construction gang who, in spite of the chill of that downfall, still sweated at their labor.
If the currents conveyed the Explorer through one of the sluiceways and along the river, the queer rock formations would be just interesting scenery.
Twenty yards from the sluiceways, the lateral drift of the truck slowed.