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Definition of Sluicegate

1. Noun. Regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sluicegate

Literary usage of Sluicegate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Irrigation Practice and Engineering by Bernard Alfred Etcheverry (1916)
"The three sluicegate openings on the California side are formed between two intermediate piers and the abutment walls; in which 8 feet upstream from the ..."

2. Irrigation Engineering by Arthur Powell Davis, Herbert Michael Wilson (1919)
"A cast- iron sluicegate 4 feet by 5 feet is operated by a 10-inch vertical turbine located just outside the wasteway pit with its intake at such an ..."

3. Irrigation Engineering by Arthur Powell Davis, Herbert Michael Wilson (1919)
"A cast- iron sluicegate 4 feet by 5 feet is operated by a lo-inch vertical turbine located just outside the wasteway pit with its intake at such an ..."

4. The Practical Draughtsman's Book of Industrial Design and Machinist's and by Charles A. Armengaud, William Johnson, Jules Amouroux (1854)
"It very often happens that the sluicegate is inclined. In this case, if there is no contraction on the sides or bottom of the orifice, the coefficient needs ..."

5. Proceedings by American Society of Civil Engineers (1907)
"Back of this, and against the wall of the gate-chamber, is set a 12-in. sluicegate at the level of the floor of the primary bed. ..."

6. Proceedings by American Society of Civil Engineers (1902)
"At the intake, the water is controlled by a large sluicegate, operated in the usual manner, with racks, pinions and handwheel. At the settling basin, Fig. ..."

7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1845)
"... and did not halt till they reached the sluicegate, which had been drawn up, so that nobody might pass. It was now proclaimed with beat of drum, ..."

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