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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun penstock has 2 senses
- penstock(n = noun.artifact) floodgate, head gate, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate - regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice; Array is a kind of regulator
- penstock(n = noun.artifact) sluice, sluiceway - conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate; Array is a kind of conduit
is a part of penstock, sluice, sluiceway
has parts: floodgate, head gate, penstock, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate
CIDE DICTIONARY
penstock, n. [Etymol. uncertain; perh. fr. pen an inclosure + stock.].
- A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses. [1913 Webster]
- The barrel of a wooden pump. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
penstock, n.
1 a sluice; a floodgate.
2 US a channel for conveying water to a water-wheel.
1 a sluice; a floodgate.
2 US a channel for conveying water to a water-wheel.
Etymology
PEN(2) in sense 'mill-dam' + STOCK
THESAURUS
penstock
aboideau, air lock, chute, dock gate, eaves trough, flood-hatch, floodgate, gate, guide, gutter, head gate, lock, lock gate, pentrough, shoot, sluice, sluice gate, tide gate, trough, water gate, weirROGET THESAURUS
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Conduit
N conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race, head race, tail race, abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito, acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre, arroyo, adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile, flume, ingate, runner, lock-weir, tedge, vena, dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon, piscina, pipe, funnel, tunnel, water pipe, waste pipe, emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper, adjutage, ajutage, hose, gargoyle, gurgoyle, penstock, weir, flood gate, water gate, sluice, lock, valve, rose, waterworks, pipeline, vascular.
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