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Answer for the clue "Water-flow control device ", 5 letters:
valve

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "one of the halves of a folding door," from Latin valva (plural valvae ) "section of a folding or revolving door," literally "that which turns," related to volvere "to roll" (see volvox ). Sense extended 1610s to "membranous fold regulating flow ...

Usage examples of valve.

They opened every release valve on the gas bag and deflated it slowly then trod on the ballonets to help deflate them as well.

The bridge, stretching from side to side of the bottling hall, was about twelve feet wide, railed at the sides, with four feeder vats on it standing taller than my head, each with a ladder bolted to its side so that one could go up to the entry valves on top.

Then Brennand gripped the valve of the starboard airlock, turned the control, watched the pressure gauge crawl from three pounds up to fifteen.

Between the large and the small intestine is a valve, which prevents the return of excrementitious matter that has passed into the large intestine.

But, in such case doubtless, you can increase the strength of the springs and the hydrostatic valves.

We had a post mortem, and it was found that he had malformed heart valves, like hole-in-heart-babies.

These, with seven or eight long bristles on both sides of the peristome, form a sort of net over the valve, which would tend to prevent all animals, excepting very small ones, entering the bladder.

It would have been simpler, more reassuring, could one have seen a wheel turn, a valve lift and fall, but there was little to note within save an odd play of light, a photic anomaly, now at the fringes of the cubicle, now like beads of bright water at its edges, pulsating, corruscating, then in small threads darting across the heavy plastic to join other threads, other ripples of light across the cubicle.

I were riding through the forested hills above Baidarka 6 Admin Center in a rented Volvo Planetokhod Jeepster, nothing in our ears but the click of our rebreather valves, the soft whisper of static in the headphones.

As the air began to rush out of the pleural space through the valve, it made a honking sound, further startling the onlookers.

Between the clavicles another pulsatile swelling was easily felt but hardly seen, which was doubtless the arch of the aorta, as by putting the fingers on it one could feel a double shock, synchronous with distention and recoil of a vessel or opening and closing of the semilunar valves.

With its valves reground, its timing reset, and its carburetor cleaned and adjusted, it sounded a lot healthier than it had a few weeks previously.

Then I screwed the cap back on, twisted the valve, repressurized with nitrogen.

Filtration and sanitation plant: discovered pump had been allowed to run with outlet valve shut, with resuit that electrical demand for motor increased, boiling water inside pump.

The Cooper-Hoffman valve, which he and his partner had invented as young physicians, had revolutionized the then-new field of open heart surgery and made possible a lifestyle that allowed him to live in that French-owned resort while continuing to travel for his lectures and conferences all over the world.