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Floodgate   /flˈədgˌeɪt/   Listen
Floodgate

noun
1.
Something that restrains a flood or outpouring.
2.
Regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice.  Synonyms: head gate, penstock, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate.






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"Floodgate" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the word "Whether." We are concerned mainly with Query 11. It runs as follows:—"Whether that Independent Government which some contend for ... be not of its own nature a very seminary of schisms and dangerous divisions in the Church and State? a floodgate to let in an inundation of all manner of heresies, errors, sects, religions, destructive opinions, libertinism and lawlessness, among us, without any sufficient means of preventing or suppressing them when introduced? Whether the ...
— The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649 • David Masson



Words linked to "Floodgate" :   regulator, restraint, sluice, sluiceway



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