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flap gates

flap gates is the plural of flap gate.

Meaning of flap gate

Noun

flap gate (plural flap gates)

  1. A device that allows water to flow in one direction only through a culvert; it is used especially to drain surface water from coastal marshes at low tide

Questions about flap gates

What is flap gates the plural of?
Flap gates is the plural of flap gate.

Words near flap gates in the dictionary

  1. flap copy
  2. flap display
  3. flap doodle
  4. flap doodles
  5. flap gate
  6. flap gates
  7. flap off
  8. flap one's gums
  9. flap one's jaw
  10. flap one's jaws
  11. flap one's lips

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flap gates (page history and authors); flap gate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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