sluice-gaten.

Etymology: sluice n.

a. The gate of a sluice, the part which can be opened or shut to let out or retain the water; also, the upper gate 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

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

1802 R. Bloomfield Rural Tales 38 To raise the sluice-gates early every morn.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xiv. 130 Not a sluice gate, or a painted scale upon a post or wall, showing the depth of water.

1893 Archaeologia 53 540 A singularly constructed sluice-gate in the city wall.

b. figurative or in figurative contexts.

ΚΠ

1815 Sporting Mag. 46 153 Those who opened the sluice-gates of their wrath against Mr. Wynne's Bill.

1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. (1852) 137 The..sinews of the war of life lie at his disposal. At his nod, the sluice-gates close or open which control the fate of a country.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 4 Having opened upon myself the sluice gates of advice, I rapidly became distracted.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	sluice-gate
释义	sluice-gaten. Etymology: sluice n. a. The gate of a sluice, the part which can be opened or shut to let out or retain the water; also, the upper gate 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 1781 Chambers's Cycl. at Lock Lock is..a kind of canal inclosed between two gates; the upper called by workmen the sluice-gate. 1802 R. Bloomfield Rural Tales 38 To raise the sluice-gates early every morn. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xiv. 130 Not a sluice gate, or a painted scale upon a post or wall, showing the depth of water. 1893 Archaeologia 53 540 A singularly constructed sluice-gate in the city wall. b. figurative or in figurative contexts. ΚΠ 1815 Sporting Mag. 46 153 Those who opened the sluice-gates of their wrath against Mr. Wynne's Bill. 1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. (1852) 137 The..sinews of the war of life lie at his disposal. At his nod, the sluice-gates close or open which control the fate of a country. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 4 Having opened upon myself the sluice gates of advice, I rapidly became distracted. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1781
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