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Water gate   /wˈɔtər geɪt/   Listen
Water gate

noun
1.
Regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice.  Synonyms: floodgate, head gate, penstock, sluice valve, sluicegate.






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"Water gate" Quotes from Famous Books



... appears in Ezra,—and this he copies. It may be instructive to take these two lists—the one in Ezra ii. and the one in Nehemiah vii.—and compare them. After this we have an account of a great congregation which assembled "in the broad place that was before the water gate," when Ezra the scribe stood upon "a pulpit of wood" from early morning until midday, and read to the assembled multitude from the book of the law. "And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people (for he was above all the people); and when he opened it ...
— Who Wrote the Bible? • Washington Gladden

... of parchment to Gervaise, who hurried to the water gate in the inner harbour, threw off his helmet and armour, issued out at the gate, and plunged into the sea. He swam out some distance, in order to avoid the missiles of the Turks, who were trying to scale the wall from the mole, and then directed his course to St. Michael's, ...
— A Knight of the White Cross • G.A. Henty

... a modern building on the site of an older one, is a small gateway which may possibly have been a water gate, as traces of sea-weed were found clinging to it when the adjacent ...
— Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch • Sidney Heath

... the right upon the wall toward the Dung Gate; and behind them went Hoshaiah and half of the officials of Judah. At the Fountain Gate they went straight up the stairs of the City of David by the ascent along the wall above the House of David to the Water Gate on the east ...
— The Children's Bible • Henry A. Sherman

... Zamorin was poisoned, and his murderer and successor allowed Albuquerque to build a fortress on the site he had chosen. It was the best fortified castle erected in India, and its water gate, by means of which reinforcements and ammunition could be introduced direct from the sea, was especially admired. The new Zamorin offered to pay full compensation to the Portuguese for all the damage that had been done since the murder of the first factor, and he also sent two native envoys to ...
— Rulers of India: Albuquerque • Henry Morse Stephens



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