| 单词 | falling sluice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfalling sluice falling sluice n. now rare (in a dam, weir, etc.) a gate that drops open automatically as a flood-prevention measure when water levels reach a certain height. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > gate, lock, or sluice hatchOE clowa1250 lock1261 water lock1261 sluice1340 water gate1390 sewer-gate1402 spay1415 floodgatec1440 shuttlec1440 spayer1450 gate1496 falling gate1524 spoye1528 gote1531 penstock1542 ventil1570 drawgate1587 flood-hatch1587 turnpike1623 slaker1664 lock gate1677 hatchway1705 flash1768 turnpike-lock1771 sluice-gate1781 pound-lock1783 stop-gate1790 buck gate1791 slacker1797 aboiteau1802 koker1814 guard-lock1815 falling sluice1819 lasher1840 fender1847 tailgate1875 weir-hatch1875 wicket1875 1819 P. Nicholson Archit. Dict. I. ii. 1/2 Falling-Sluices, in enginery, gates contrived to fall down of themselves, and enlarge the water-way, on the increase of a flood, in a mill-dam, or the pond of a river navigation. 1846 W. M. Buchanan Technol. Dict. Falling-sluice, a..flood-gate, in connection with mill-dams..self-acting or contrived to fall down of itself in the event of a flood. 1932 Engineering 22 Jan. 98/2 The works at the intake to the canal consist of a regulator with eight openings... Seven of these openings are equipped with a falling sluice. < as lemmas |
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