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sluice valve
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Noun sluice valve has 1 sense
- sluice valve(n = noun.artifact) floodgate, head gate, penstock, 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
is a part of penstock, sluice, sluiceway
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