| 单词 | penstock |
| 释义 | penstock (once / 113648 pages) n WORD FAMILY penstock: penstocks USAGE EXAMPLESThe Montrose project includes piping 1,344 feet of canal, thereby allowing water to bypass leaking canals through a steel penstock. Washington Times(May 20, 2015) Each channel has a square penstock, so that the sewage can be diverted into either chamber when necessary. Conway, George Robert Graham, ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewe...(2012) At the gate is placed a vertical iron tube called a penstock, 7½ feet in diameter and 160 feet deep. Doolittle, William Henry, Inventions in the Century(2011) 1n regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice Syn|Hyper floodgate, head gate, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate regulator any of various controls or devices for regulating or controlling fluid flow, pressure, temperature, etc. 2n conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate Syn|Hyper sluice, sluiceway conduit a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass |
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