Definitions
regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice
Word origin
From Middle English flodegate, flodgate, flodeyate, floodȝate, flodȝete, equivalent to flood + gate.
Used in a sentence
“At the start of the Second World War floodgates would be installed at the ends of the under-Thames sections of the Bakerloo and Northern lines to save them from inundation should bombs damage the riverbed.”
““The floodgates for advertising on cable are down,” says Michael Dann, a leading consultant on cable television.”
“Out of her gored wound the cruell ſteel / He lightly ſnatcht, and did the floodgate ſtop / VVith his faire garment: then gan ſoftly feel her feeble pulſe, to proue if any drop / Of liuing blood yet in her veynes did hop”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Sluice barrier”9 letters
02“Sluice control”9 letters
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