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flood-gates
n. (flood-gate lang=en nodot=1) ((alternative spelling of floodgates lang=en nocap=1 nodot=1)).
Usage examples of "flood-gates".
The report that instantly followed made the White House dance upon its foundations, and, as if that had been a signal, the flood-gates of the sky immediately opened, and rain so dense that it looked like a solid cataract of water poured down upon the earth.
But, in the midst of it, the heavens opened their flood-gates, as they had done in the New World, and then the aeros, flooded with rain, and hurled about by contending blasts of wind, drooped, fluttered, and fell by hundreds into the fast mounting waves.