What is "grates"

Usage examples of "grates".

They took them, two at a time, and raced down the corridors, coming up behind Irene and Iris at one of the grates just as the dragon came striding along the corridor to confront Raven and Cedric.

Were a suitable framework in place, such as one of those grates, I could spread across it, sealing it, cutting off the flow of water until such time as it were advisable to release the flow.

Better to use both grates, overlapping, to cancel out the holes and make it more secure.

Windflower lifted and carried the grates slowly to the valve and leaned them beside it.

Sickh helped move the two grates into precise place, then fastened her pincers on them and held her air intake high so as to reach the pocket of air.

Windflower set her roots firmly in the sediment below and twined her smaller upper tendrils into the grates, anchoring the metal upright.

Early on in the job he found fault with the way the grates were being secured.

All the old grates had to be pulled out and the masonry knees repaired.

There's no need, since the grates are fixed and they started at the top and worked down toward the lower city end.

There's more than iron grates guarding the sewer channels under this place.

When Lyrana halted beside one of the now familiar grates, Gawaine grinned.

The grates here were no better than those they had left behind — there would be no extra drink or food through them.

The air was pretty close as well, but there were more grates to let in fresh air.

As he approached one by the road he flicked off his light and kept it off, using the faint light from the grates to find his way.

Shining brightly in through the large high windows of the warehouse, the morning sun lit up countless squadrons of the intermingled wasps, flies, vrills, grates, snurks, hornets, gnats, shothole beetles and other pests, that drifted and darted through rolling clouds of this latest insecticide.