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Lock gate

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tailgatenoun(automotive) A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading.
lockagenounThe works forming a canal lock or locks.
locknounSomething used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
beartrap gatenounA 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-gatenounAlternative 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 gatenounA 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 locknounA 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 gatenounA gate for discharging surplus water from a dam, etc.
poundnounA 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 locknounA 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
lockfulnounEnough water to fill a canal lock.
tail-baynounThe part of a canal lock below the lower gates.
drop locknounA 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.
locksidenounThe area of land beside a lock (segment of a waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels).
tide gatenounAn 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.
gatewaynounA place regarded as giving access to somewhere.
gatingnounThe selective regulation or restriction of access to something.
drawbridgenounA hinged bridge which can be raised (to prevent its being crossed, as across a moat, or to allow watercraft to travel beneath it).
watergatenounAn 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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