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sluice gates

sluice gates is the plural of sluice gate.

Meaning of sluice gate

Noun

sluice gate (plural sluice gates)

  1. A portal which may be opened or closed to allow or prevent the passage of water through a man-made channel.
    • "Has the miller a strong high dam to his pond, and a good stout sluice-gate at the end?"1877, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 42, in Erema: My Father's Sin
  2. (figuratively) Something which restrains or releases a substantial volume, a flood, of activity, emotion, etc.
    • [A]nd then when the fountain of her love was opened, and the sluice gate of her displeasure removed, she told him how she would pray for him till he came back safe from the wars.1850, Anthony Trollope, chapter 7, in La Vendée

Questions about sluice gates

What is sluice gates the plural of?
Sluice gates is the plural of sluice gate.

Words near sluice gates in the dictionary

  1. slugworms
  2. sluice
  3. sluice box
  4. sluice boxes
  5. sluice gate
  6. sluice gates
  7. sluice one's bolt
  8. sluice out
  9. sluice valve
  10. sluice-box
  11. sluice-boxes

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