💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Lock gate"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| tailgatenoun | (automotive) A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading. |
| lockagenoun | The works forming a canal lock or locks. |
| locknoun | Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination. |
| beartrap gatenoun | A waterflow/impoundment hydraulically-operated rising double-leaf floodgate used for weirs and dam spillways, and canals, to control waterflow across the top of the gate in the channel. |
| sluice-gatenoun | 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.] |
| sluice gatenoun | A portal which may be opened or closed to allow or prevent the passage of water through a man-made channel. |
| floodgatenoun | (figuratively, extension) Anything that controls or limits an outpouring of people, emotion, etc. |
| staircase locknoun | A set of locks on a waterway canal which rise steeply, and consisting of lock gates where the top gate of one lock is also the bottom gate of the next lock, not having a pound between each level. |
| waste gatenoun | A gate for discharging surplus water from a dam, etc. |
| poundnoun | A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight. |
| tide locknoun | 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 |
| lockfulnoun | Enough water to fill a canal lock. |
| tail-baynoun | The part of a canal lock below the lower gates. |
| drop locknoun | A kind of lock by which a short length of canal can be temporarily lowered while a boat passes under an obstruction such as a low bridge. |
| locksidenoun | The area of land beside a lock (segment of a waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels). |
| tide gatenoun | An opening through which water may flow freely when the tide moves in one direction, but which closes automatically and prevents the water from flowing in the other direction. |
| gatewaynoun | A place regarded as giving access to somewhere. |
| gatingnoun | The selective regulation or restriction of access to something. |
| drawbridgenoun | A hinged bridge which can be raised (to prevent its being crossed, as across a moat, or to allow watercraft to travel beneath it). |
| watergatenoun | An American political scandal (beginning with a burglary in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC, in 1972) that eventually led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon. |
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