flood-hatchn.
/ˈflʌdhatʃ/, U.S. /ˈflədˌ(h)ætʃ/ A framework of boards sliding in grooves, to be raised in time of flood; a sluice, floodgate. literal and figurative.
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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
1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 149v I cannot liue if you doe stoppe, the floudhatch of your frendly brooke.
1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. B7v Let downe The floud-hatches of all spectators eies.
1806 ‘P. Pindar’ Tristia 161 I close the flood-hatch of your praise.
1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon xii. 319 At the end..another flood-hatch is fixed on a level with the bed of the river.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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