Crossword clues for penstock
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Penstock \Pen"stock\, n. [Etymol. uncertain; perh. fr. pen an inclosure + stock.]
A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses.
The barrel of a wooden pump.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A sluice or pipe which allows the controlled flow of water from behind a dam, typically routing it to a turbine of a power plant. 2 The barrel of a wooden pump.
WordNet
n. regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice [syn: sluicegate, sluice valve, floodgate, head gate, water gate]
conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate [syn: sluice, sluiceway]
Wikipedia
A penstock is a sluice or gate or intake structure that controls water flow, or an enclosed pipe that delivers water to hydro turbines and sewerage systems. It is a term that has been inherited from the earlier technology of mill ponds and watermills.
Usage examples of "penstock".
The tunnel opening gave onto a concrete sided high-walled penstock shaped like a broad funnel in reverse.
The penstock appeared to be the only man-made structure other than the fences.
He took the bags a hundred yards upstream of the penstock, then climbed up the bank to a knoll above the stream.
He had seen no evidence around the inside penstock area that anyone else had come through the tunnel recently.
The latter was most often the case when he was with his cronies Penstock and Rivet.
One of these he materialized publicly, the public being those two cronies Charles Penstock and Ed Rivet.
Those town-and-cotintry men, Charles Penstock and Ed Rivet, had gone to visit Little Otto Pankration at a loose hour.
Charles Penstock and Ed Rivet went away from there to Silly Ghost Cove on Keystone Lake to jug for bullhead catfish.
But the huge penstock was designed to carry running gasoline, not water, nor had its builders meant it to be used as a standpipe.
Connecting the two levels would be massive underground pipes-or penstocks and tailrace tunnels.
The generating plant would be between the reservoir and river, the penstocks ending at the plant, where the tailrace tunnels start.
The dam shook with turbulence and disorder in the penstocks and turbines that were its heart.