Usually means: Pipe channeling water to turbines.
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  1. penstock: Merriam-Webster
  2. penstock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. penstock: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. penstock: Collins English Dictionary
  5. penstock: Vocabulary.com
  6. penstock: Wordnik
  7. penstock: Wiktionary
  8. penstock: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. penstock: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. penstock: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. penstock: Dictionary.com
  12. Penstock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Penstock: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. penstock: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. penstock: Rhymezone
  16. Penstock: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. penstock: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. penstock: FreeDictionary.org
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  2. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  3. Penstock: Dictionary of Military Architecture

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Definitions from Wiktionary (penstock)

noun:  A sluice or pipe which allows the controlled flow of water from behind a dam, typically routing it to a turbine of a power plant.
noun:  The barrel of a wooden pump.

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