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(Canada, Acadian) A tide gate, designed to protect marshland, so constructed as to let out water at low tide, but to prevent an influx of water at high tide.
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(regional, now rare) A visible current in a lake or river; a ripple on the surface of water.
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(historical) Synonym of water bailage
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(construction) The penetration of a separating wall or the remaining distance to an adjacent hollow (a crosscut in mining) or between two parts of a tunnel build from both ends; knockthrough.
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The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
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A common type of mechanical spring in a form of a helix, manufactured in different styles and sizes for many different applications.
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(military) Effects of relief and drainage upon avenues of approach so as to produce areas bounded on at least two sides by terrain features such as woods, ridges, or ravines that limit observation or observed fire into the area from points outside the area. (JP 3-05.1)
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The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
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A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.
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A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding.
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(nautical) The eddying water under a slow-moving ship's counter, or a similar area of stationary fluid or gas in advance of a concave angle.
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(mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
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(mining) A drift, or horizontal passage in a mine.
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A short wall used as a weir or floodgate to control the flow of water.
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(nautical) On a chart, the vertical distance of the seabed exposed by the tide at the lowest astronomical tide
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A hydraulic canal, as for a water-powered mill.
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A device that allows water to flow in one direction only through a culvert; it is used especially to drain surface water from coastal marshes at low tide
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Alternative spelling of flap gate [A device that allows water to flow in one direction only through a culvert; it is used especially to drain surface water from coastal marshes at low tide]
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(waterways) A simple single-gate lock on a river or canal.
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Alternative spelling of floodgate [An adjustable gate or valve used to control the flow of water through a sluice.]
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Alternative spelling of floodgate [An adjustable gate or valve used to control the flow of water through a sluice.]
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An adjustable gate or valve used to control the flow of water through a sluice.
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A man-made vertical barrier designed to temporarily contain the waters of a river or other waterway during a flood
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An engineered path to channel floodwaters away from areas to be protected.
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A point at which fording a river, etc. is possible.
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(reservoirs) An artificial pool of water ahead of a larger body of water.
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A modular spillway sill invented in 1989 to improve dam safety by increasing water storage.
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An opening between sandbanks; a strait.
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(metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
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A valve that is opened by lifting a round or rectangular gate or wedge out of the path of the fluid.
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The person in charge of a floodgate.
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A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters when the tide is out.
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A primary gate or valve at an aqueduct or other source that can be opened or closed to regulate the flow of water entering an irrigation system (of lesser gated canals and irrigation ditches).
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Any structure at the head or diversion point of a waterway. It is smaller than a barrage and is used to divert water from a river into a canal or from a large canal into a smaller canal.
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The sea when it is very rough due to strong winds and storms, such that the sea encroaches much further inland than is normal, often causing damage.
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(obsolete) The aperture in a mould for pouring in the metal; the gate.
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The sliding of a mass of land down a slope or cliff; a landslide
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(US, transitive) To keep within a channel by means of levees.
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Alternative form of line drawn on water [Something transient or ephemeral.]
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The amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal.
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A disc-seal tube, used in lighthouses or submersibles.
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A narrow part of a navigable waterway.
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A point at which a river suffers a break of slope in its long profile; the current point of rejuvenation working upstream
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A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
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The small water storage behind the weir of a run-of-the-river hydroelectric power plant.
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A water channel, esp. one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised.
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A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)
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(chiefly Canada, US) Rocks or other materials used to shore up an embankment, deter or prevent erosion, guide shipping, or serve as a temporary mooring.
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(archaic US slang) Used in reference to losing an election; found especially in the phrase "rowed up Salt River".
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The breaking of an embankment by the sea.
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An undersea pipeline for oil, natural gas, etc.
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A form of movable dam having large gates opened and closed by a turbine.
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A water gate or floodgate.
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A portal which may be opened or closed to allow or prevent the passage of water through a man-made channel.
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Alternative form of sluice gate [A portal which may be opened or closed to allow or prevent the passage of water through a man-made channel.]
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Alternative form of sluice gate [A portal which may be opened or closed to allow or prevent the passage of water through a man-made channel.]
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A floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
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(India) A well in which the water can be reached by descending a set of steps.
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A beach affected by particularly fierce waves, usually having a very long fetch.
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A door normally leading to a storm cellar, cellar or a basement, for protection from a tornado or a violent storm.
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The path of a stream, especially as a route through which water or ice drains, or (below ground) through which cavers travel.
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Either of the downstream gates in a canal lock.
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a type of radial arm floodgate used in dams and canal locks to control water flow.
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A lock situated between an enclosed basin or a canal and the tide water of a harbor or river, when they are on different levels, so that craft can pass either way at all times of the tide
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A water wheel operated by the ebb and flow of the tide.
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The main line of a canal, from which other sections diverge.
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The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.
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A gate for discharging surplus water from a dam etc.
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A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated.
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The level at which water meets land along the shore of a body of water.
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A facility, comparable to a wind tunnel, in which an underwater component may be tested in a controlled flow of water.
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A barrier built across a steeply sloping road or trail in order to direct the flow of water and prevent erosion; waterbreak.
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(countable) A barrier built across a steeply sloping road or trail in order to direct the flow of water and prevent erosion.
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A gate opening onto water, or only or mainly accessible by water.
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A line showing where the water has been, usually a line separating dry land and wet areas; a watermark or tidemark.
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An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream.
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Alternative form of wind gap [(geography) A dry valley once occupied by a stream or river, since captured by another stream.]
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Alternative form of wind road [(mining, historical) An underground route for ventilation in a mine.]
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(mining, historical) A wind road; a ventilation route in a mine.
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