Word.ws English Dictionary

penstocks

penstocks is the plural of penstock.

Meaning of penstock

Noun

penstock (plural penstocks)

  1. A sluice or pipe which allows the controlled flow of water from behind a dam, typically routing it to a turbine of a power plant.
    • It amazes him still, this effortless journey powered by the fall of water. Water surging through tunnel and penstock.2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 30
  2. The barrel of a wooden pump.

Questions about penstocks

What is penstocks the plural of?
Penstocks is the plural of penstock.

Words near penstocks in the dictionary

  1. penster
  2. pensters
  3. penstick
  4. pensticks
  5. penstock
  6. penstocks
  7. Penstone
  8. penstroke
  9. penstrokes
  10. penstyldensovirus
  11. penstyldensoviruses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: penstocks (page history and authors); penstock (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “penstocks.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/penstocks. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.