Definition of Sluice valve

1. Noun. Regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice.

Exact synonyms: Floodgate, Head Gate, Penstock, Sluicegate, Water Gate
Generic synonyms: Regulator
Group relationships: Penstock, Sluice, Sluiceway

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sluice Valve

sluggish layer
sluggisher
sluggishest
sluggishly
sluggishness
sluggishnesses
sluggy
slughorn
slughorns
sluglike
slugs
slugworm
slugworms
sluice
sluice down
sluice valve (current term)
sluiced
sluicegate
sluicelike
sluices
sluiceway
sluiceways
sluicier
sluiciest
sluicing
sluicy
sluing
sluit
sluits
slum

Literary usage of Sluice valve

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Water Supply of Towns and the Construction of Waterworks: A Practical by William Kinnimond Burton (1894)
"Somewhat less neat, but nearly as effective, is the plan of having a by-pass with sluice valve, say one-third the diameter of the great valve. ..."

2. Calculations in Hydraulic Engineering: A Practical Text-book for the Use of by Thomas Claxton Fidler (1902)
"Water-main discharging through a Sluice- valve. — The discharge of a long pipe may sometimes be regulated and governed by a screw-down sluice-valve applied ..."

3. Calculations in Hydraulic Engineering: A Practical Text-book for the Use of by Thomas Claxton Fidler (1902)
"Water-main discharging through a Sluice-valve. — The discharge of a long pipe may sometimes be regulated and governed by a screw-down sluice-valve applied ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"a modification of the " D " box in its simplest form is necessary'; this modification consists in the addition of a " sluice " valve placed at a distance of ..."

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