sluice-gaten.
a. The gate of a sluice, the part which can be opened or shut to let out or retain the water; also, the upper gate of a lock.
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > gate, lock, or sluice
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1781 Chambers's Cycl. at Lock Lock is..a kind of canal inclosed between two gates; the upper called by workmen the sluice-gate.
1802 R. Bloomfield Rural Tales 38 To raise the sluice-gates early every morn.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xiv. 130 Not a sluice gate, or a painted scale upon a post or wall, showing the depth of water.
1893 Archaeologia 53 540 A singularly constructed sluice-gate in the city wall.
b. figurative or in figurative contexts.
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1815 Sporting Mag. 46 153 Those who opened the sluice-gates of their wrath against Mr. Wynne's Bill.
1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. (1852) 137 The..sinews of the war of life lie at his disposal. At his nod, the sluice-gates close or open which control the fate of a country.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 4 Having opened upon myself the sluice gates of advice, I rapidly became distracted.
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