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flapgate

flapgate is the alternative spelling 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

Forms of flapgate

pluralflapgates

Questions about flapgate

What is flapgate the alternative spelling of?
Flapgate is the alternative spelling of flap gate.

Words near flapgate in the dictionary

  1. flapdoodling
  2. flapdragon
  3. flapdragons
  4. flaperon
  5. flaperons
  6. flapgate
  7. flapgates
  8. flapjack
  9. flapjacks
  10. flapjacky
  11. flapless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flapgate (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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