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sluicegate

sluicegate is the alternative form 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

Forms of sluicegate

pluralsluicegates

Questions about sluicegate

What is sluicegate the alternative form of?
Sluicegate is the alternative form of sluice gate.

Words near sluicegate in the dictionary

  1. sluicebox
  2. sluiceboxes
  3. sluiced
  4. sluiced one's bolt
  5. sluiced out
  6. sluicegate
  7. sluicegates
  8. sluiceless
  9. sluicelike
  10. sluicer
  11. sluiceries

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