Synonym of the word PENSTOCK

n. A sluice or pipe which allows the controlled flow of water from behind a dam, typically routing it to…
n. The barrel of a wooden pump.

n. A pipe or channel for conveying water etc.
n. A duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled; a type of raceway.
n. A means by which something is transmitted.
n. (finance) An investment vehicle that issues short-term commercial paper to finance long-term off-balance…

n. An adjustable gate or valve used to control the flow of water through a sluice.
n. (by extension) Anything that controls or limits an outpouring of people, emotion etc.

n. A device that controls or limits something.
n. A person or group that sets standards of practice, especially those established by law.
n. A very accurate clock, used by clockmakers to measure the timekeeping of each newly made clock.
n. (genetics) A gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes.
n. (rail transport) A device that controls the supply of steam to the cylinders of a steam locomotive.

n. An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream,…
n. A water gate or floodgate.
n. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
n. The stream flowing through a flood gate.
n. (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
n. (linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
v. (transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
v. (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice.
v. (transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
v. (transitive) (more generally) To wash (down or out).
v. (intransitive) To flow, pour.
v. (linguistics) To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.

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