floodgaten.

Forms: Also flood-gate.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈflood-ˌgate.

a. singular and plural. A gate or gates that may be opened or closed, to admit or exclude water, esp. the water of a flood; spec. the lower gates of a lock.

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

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 167/2 Flodegate of a mylle, sino~glocitorium.

1519 in W. L. Nash Churchwardens' Acct. Bk. St. Giles, Reading (1851) 3 For a tent next the fflode gatis in the North side of the said mill lane.

1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 233 There are placed a great pair of Folding doors, or Flood-gates of Timber cross the river.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Basin of a dock, a place where the water is confined by double flood-gates.

1781 Chambers's Cycl. at Lock or Weir Lock is..a kind of canal inclosed between two gates; the upper called by workmen the sluice-gate, and the lower called the flood-gate.

1858 D. Lardner Hand-bk. Nat. Philos.: Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, & Heat (new ed.) iv. 66 The water in the higher level is confined by a floodgate.

b. transferred and figurative chiefly in expressions relating to rain or tears.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > copious or continuous > that which allows

floodgatec1230

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [noun] > that which

lockeOE

floodgatec1230

stopc1508

staya1533

snub1581

prevention1584

embarment1606

allay1607

spar1614

counterchecka1616

gag1618

preventivea1639

check1661

preventative1691

embargo1692

closed door1934

policeman1951

block-

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [noun] > a tear > tears > source of

floodgatea1656

c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 39 Hwen ȝe nede moten a lute wiht lowsið up ower muðes flodȝeten as me deð ed mulne & leoteð adun sone.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clviij^v To set open the fludde gates of these deuises, it was thought necessary, to cause some great commocion and rysyng of people.

1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. G Through the floud gates breaks the siluer rain.

1607 S. Hieron Dignitie of Script. in Wks. (1620) I. 89 It setteth open the very floudgate of Gods wrath.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 109 Let no Antinomian stop the floodgates of our eyes.

1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 45 It is God that breaks up the Flood-Gates of so general a Deluge.

1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 225 When wine has..forced the flood-gates of licentious mirth.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxvi. 226 The floodgates were opened and mother and daughter wept.

a. A sluice.

ΚΠ

1559 A. Andrison in W. Boys Sandwich (1792) 739 Wheales..for the drawenge up of the fludgates.

1870 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David I. Ps. v. 3 It is idle to pull up the flood-gates of a dry brook, and then hope to see the wheel revolve.

b. dialect. (See quot. 1888.)

ΚΠ

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Flood-gate, a gate hung upon a pole across a stream, so that in flood-time it rises and falls by floating on the water. Its purpose is..to prevent cattle passing when the water is low.

†3.

a. The stream that is closed by or passes through a flood-gate; a strong stream, a torrent. Also transferred and figurative. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > torrent

floodc1275

floodgatea1425

waterfall1578

torrent1609

torrent-stream1728

rattle1770

lavant1774

fiumara1820

torrent-flood1825

skookum chuck1888

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > sudden rush of water > [noun] > let down through weir, etc.

floodgatea1425

flash1677

lasher1677

skail-water1825

splash1879

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Job xxxvi. 27 Which..schedith out reynes at the licnesse of floodȝatis.

1533 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 7 Take..in fludgate, salmon-pipe, or at the tayle of any mylle or were..the young fry..of..salmon.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. i. sig. N5 Of her gored wound..He..did the floodgate stop With his faire garment.

1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum i. 22 My Lord, you let a flood-gate of Arguments out.

b. attributive passing into adjective.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [adjective] > erupting violently > of the nature of a violent surge

floodgatea1616

billowy1726

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 56 For my particular griefes, Is of so floodgate and orebearing nature.

Compounds

flood-gate iron n. (see quot. 1833).

ΚΠ

1793 J. Boswell Principal Corrections Life Johnson 31/1 [Quoting Johnson, an. 1783] ‘Sir’, (said he,) ‘I am the great Twalmley, who invented the New Floodgate iron.’

1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 253 The second [box-iron] is made hollow, for the reception of a heater; and with reference to the contrivance by which the heater is shut in, has been called the floodgate iron.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

2. The proper name, nickname, etc., of a person or organization implicated in the scandal, as Billygate, Floodgate, Totegate, etc.

ΚΠ

1975 Wall St. Jrnl. 24 Apr. 1/6 (heading) Motorgate: how a floating corpse led to a fraud inquiry and ousters by GM.

1977 N.Y. Times Mag. 16 Oct. 38/1 Lancegate is no Watergate... The Carter men had hardly a month to plan..a downplaying of Bert Lance's problems.

1978 Time 6 Mar. 21/2 Many friends of Flood's will probably be touched by the investigation, which is already becoming known as ‘Floodgate’.

1978 Observer 10 Dec. 5/1 The South African Government easily defeated..an attempt..to force its resignation over ‘Muldergate’—the Information Department scandal.

1979 Observer 29 July 4/1 ‘Totegate’..centres on the Tote's practice of collecting off-course bets and sending them for inclusion..at the racecourse up to five minutes after the result of the race is known.

1980 Newsweek 18 Aug. 81/1 The unfolding tale of Billy Carter and his Libyan connection—an affair that many big-city dailies still call ‘Billygate’.

1983 Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News 11 July 4/2 It seems to me absurd—on the basis of what we know now—to equate ‘Cartergate’ with ‘Watergate’.

1986 Marxism Today Sept. 41/3 The current deterioration of the Ulster environment will continue unabated..if future developments significantly touch the RUC (‘Stalkergate’) or the judiciary.

单词	floodgate
释义	floodgaten. Forms: Also flood-gate. Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈflood-ˌgate. 1. a. singular and plural. A gate or gates that may be opened or closed, to admit or exclude water, esp. the water of a flood; spec. the lower gates of a lock. 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 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 167/2 Flodegate of a mylle, sino~glocitorium. 1519 in W. L. Nash Churchwardens' Acct. Bk. St. Giles, Reading (1851) 3 For a tent next the fflode gatis in the North side of the said mill lane. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 233 There are placed a great pair of Folding doors, or Flood-gates of Timber cross the river. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Basin of a dock, a place where the water is confined by double flood-gates. 1781 Chambers's Cycl. at Lock or Weir Lock is..a kind of canal inclosed between two gates; the upper called by workmen the sluice-gate, and the lower called the flood-gate. 1858 D. Lardner Hand-bk. Nat. Philos.: Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, & Heat (new ed.) iv. 66 The water in the higher level is confined by a floodgate. b. transferred and figurative chiefly in expressions relating to rain or tears. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > copious or continuous > that which allows floodgatec1230 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [noun] > that which lockeOE floodgatec1230 stopc1508 staya1533 snub1581 prevention1584 embarment1606 allay1607 spar1614 counterchecka1616 gag1618 preventivea1639 check1661 preventative1691 embargo1692 closed door1934 policeman1951 block- the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [noun] > a tear > tears > source of floodgatea1656 c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 39 Hwen ȝe nede moten a lute wiht lowsið up ower muðes flodȝeten as me deð ed mulne & leoteð adun sone. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clviij^v To set open the fludde gates of these deuises, it was thought necessary, to cause some great commocion and rysyng of people. 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. G Through the floud gates breaks the siluer rain. View more context for this quotation 1607 S. Hieron Dignitie of Script. in Wks. (1620) I. 89 It setteth open the very floudgate of Gods wrath. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 109 Let no Antinomian stop the floodgates of our eyes. 1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 45 It is God that breaks up the Flood-Gates of so general a Deluge. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 225 When wine has..forced the flood-gates of licentious mirth. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxvi. 226 The floodgates were opened and mother and daughter wept. 2. a. A sluice. ΚΠ 1559 A. Andrison in W. Boys Sandwich (1792) 739 Wheales..for the drawenge up of the fludgates. 1870 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David I. Ps. v. 3 It is idle to pull up the flood-gates of a dry brook, and then hope to see the wheel revolve. b. dialect. (See quot. 1888.) ΚΠ 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Flood-gate, a gate hung upon a pole across a stream, so that in flood-time it rises and falls by floating on the water. Its purpose is..to prevent cattle passing when the water is low. †3. a. The stream that is closed by or passes through a flood-gate; a strong stream, a torrent. Also transferred and figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > torrent floodc1275 floodgatea1425 waterfall1578 torrent1609 torrent-stream1728 rattle1770 lavant1774 fiumara1820 torrent-flood1825 skookum chuck1888 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > sudden rush of water > [noun] > let down through weir, etc. floodgatea1425 flash1677 lasher1677 skail-water1825 splash1879 a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Job xxxvi. 27 Which..schedith out reynes at the licnesse of floodȝatis. 1533 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 7 Take..in fludgate, salmon-pipe, or at the tayle of any mylle or were..the young fry..of..salmon. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. i. sig. N5 Of her gored wound..He..did the floodgate stop With his faire garment. 1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum i. 22 My Lord, you let a flood-gate of Arguments out. b. attributive passing into adjective. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [adjective] > erupting violently > of the nature of a violent surge floodgatea1616 billowy1726 a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 56 For my particular griefes, Is of so floodgate and orebearing nature. View more context for this quotation Compounds flood-gate iron n. (see quot. 1833). ΚΠ 1793 J. Boswell Principal Corrections Life Johnson 31/1 [Quoting Johnson, an. 1783] ‘Sir’, (said he,) ‘I am the great Twalmley, who invented the New Floodgate iron.’ 1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 253 The second [box-iron] is made hollow, for the reception of a heater; and with reference to the contrivance by which the heater is shut in, has been called the floodgate iron. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2021). > as lemmas Floodgate 2. The proper name, nickname, etc., of a person or organization implicated in the scandal, as Billygate, Floodgate, Totegate, etc. ΚΠ 1975 Wall St. Jrnl. 24 Apr. 1/6 (heading) Motorgate: how a floating corpse led to a fraud inquiry and ousters by GM. 1977 N.Y. Times Mag. 16 Oct. 38/1 Lancegate is no Watergate... The Carter men had hardly a month to plan..a downplaying of Bert Lance's problems. 1978 Time 6 Mar. 21/2 Many friends of Flood's will probably be touched by the investigation, which is already becoming known as ‘Floodgate’. 1978 Observer 10 Dec. 5/1 The South African Government easily defeated..an attempt..to force its resignation over ‘Muldergate’—the Information Department scandal. 1979 Observer 29 July 4/1 ‘Totegate’..centres on the Tote's practice of collecting off-course bets and sending them for inclusion..at the racecourse up to five minutes after the result of the race is known. 1980 Newsweek 18 Aug. 81/1 The unfolding tale of Billy Carter and his Libyan connection—an affair that many big-city dailies still call ‘Billygate’. 1983 Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News 11 July 4/2 It seems to me absurd—on the basis of what we know now—to equate ‘Cartergate’ with ‘Watergate’. 1986 Marxism Today Sept. 41/3 The current deterioration of the Ulster environment will continue unabated..if future developments significantly touch the RUC (‘Stalkergate’) or the judiciary. extracted from -gatecomb. form < n.c1230 as lemmas
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