What is "sluices"

Usage examples of "sluices".

He was the bearer of the copy of a letter sent from the prince to Sonoy, ordering him to protect the dykes and sluices with strong guards, lest the peasants, in order to save their crops, should repair the breaches.

On the 3rd of August all was ready, and the prince himself superintended the breaking down of the dykes in sixteen places, while at the same time the sluices at Schiedam and Rotterdam were opened and the water began to pour over the land.

The so-called authorities - they had a number of cynical and very unpleasant remarks to make about the government, the police, the army and those whose duty it was to look after the safety and welfare of dykes, locks, weirs, sluices, dams and I forget what else - were totally powerless to do anything to stop them.

Every one was set on a raised hillock, and beside these lay sluices and pools, some of which flared with the afternoon's milky brightness whilst others cast pools of shadow like flurries of smoke.

The women, girls just reaching maturity and matrons mated for many years, were more modestly and guilefully dressed in garments which would be put away after the night's revels to serve another year, when another Spring Night came and the polar sluices were again thrown open to send the waters of the melting ice-cap flooding through the ancient rock-hewn channels to bring new life and new beauty to half of Mur.

Everything was ready - the sluices taken - weapons distributed - only a word was needed, and why should that word wait for Autumn Night ?

Sonoy crossed the Y in boats, seized the dyke, opened the sluices, and began the work of cutting it through.

The prince was now occupied in endeavouring to persuade the Dutch authorities to permit the great sluices at Rotterdam, Schiedam, and Delft Haven to be opened.

What does matter is that van Rees - who has by this time passed over to the dyke-breakers all they'll ever want to know about sluices, weirs and locks so that they won't even miss him now - was also tied in with the would-be palace bombers.

For a start the ‘Street’ was blocked at regular intervals by high partition walls, at the foot of which the remains of well-made sluices could clearly be seen.

This brought to mind the evidence for water having once run in the Street of the Dead, the sluices and partition walls I had seen earlier to the north of the Citadel, and Schlemmer’s theory of reflecting pools and seismic forecasting.

The water sluices through him as if he were hollow, and he closes his eyes as he moves, and imagines it cleansing him from the inside.

I have not pulled open any sluices to let the moon illuminate my bedchamber, but light is for the living.

Already by the first week in August there was only a small section to be completed and engineers were working on the installation of the sluices and pens.

The recent tide had brought it surging through the open gates and now the sluices held it until it was needed.