What is "watergates"

Usage examples of "watergates".

There are watergates, huge bridges, crumbling dockyards — every manner of riparian structure, to say nothing of derelict public buildings, gorgeous decayed dwellings, and great plazas and arcades all choked with dense jungle growth in places where the Nyssomu have forborne to interfere.

Sighing, the Chief began to eat and drink In the streets below, Firvulag were gathering their wounded and their dead and forming long processions on their way to the Rhine watergates Bobbing lanterns out on the river marked the position of small boats that had already begun the withdrawal in anticipation of the dawn Here and there among the burning ruins stubborn human loyalists continued a futile resistance.

A little downriver from Strack Island, the chymical lights of the old city watergates hissed and sputtered and reflected their greasy yellow glow in the dark water.