Meaning of sluice gate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A portal which may be opened or closed to allow or prevent the passage of water through a man-made channel.
2. Something which restrains or releases a substantial volume, a flood, of activity, emotion, etc.
   figuratively

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Examples

“"Has the miller a strong high dam to his pond, and a good stout sluice-gate at the end⟳?"”

“He also built two dams and a sluice gate that frees dammed water to operate⟳ a 14-foot undershot waterwheel.”

“Golam Kibria was found floating through a sluice gate in a nearby sewer Monday morning, bringing the death toll to 74.”

“[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.”

“I could see⟳ her brave spirit quelling the riot of her emotions, shutting down the sluice-gate of tears.”

“Mr. Betancourt is the sluice gate for communism in Venezuela.”

“I must have⟳ opened up some sluice gate inside her and everything that had been dammed up came spilling out.”

“The Village Voice put⟳ its sassiest junior movie critic (me) on the Meyer beat⟳, opening the sluice gate to torrents of mannered enthusiasm.”

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