| 单词 | fall gate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfall gate fall gate n. (in a dam, weir, etc.) a gate or sluice that drops open automatically as a flood-prevention measure when water levels reach a certain height; = falling gate n. (c) at falling adj. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > gate > gate across road fall gate1585 falgate1808 1585 Dewsbury Rectory Manor Court Roll in Yorks. Archaeol. Jrnl. (1911) 21 427 They lay in pain that Thomas Barber and Roger Gawnte do make the fall gate and the two Mylne gates. 1665 W. Dodson Designe Draining Fens 11 To finish this Sluce, there must be four and twenty double Gates to Sea-ward, to play with the Tide when need shall serve; but these cannot play but with leave of the Fall-gates. 1884 63rd Ann. Rep. Board of Managers Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. 1883 19 New fall gates at Locks Nos. 27 and 36. 1913 J. M. M. B. Durham & R. J. Richardson Melton & Homespun 248 Do yow be at the fall-gate, over the great dick, at half arter six. 1968 Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. & Biogr. 92 402 The intricate workings of the lock gates—both the fall gate and wicket gate types; the two were commonly paired, with the ingenious fall gate at the upper end, against the flow of the water. < as lemmas |
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