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water gate
CIDE DICTIONARY
water gate,
A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
water gate
aboideau, air lock, aqueduct, arroyo, bed, canal, creek bed, culvert, dock gate, donga, dry bed, flood-hatch, floodgate, flume, gate, gulch, gully, gullyhole, head gate, headrace, irrigation ditch, lock, lock gate, nullah, penstock, race, river bed, riverway, runnel, sluice, sluice gate, spillbox, spillway, stream bed, streamway, swash, swash channel, tailrace, tide gate, wadi, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, watercourse, waterway, waterworks, weirROGET THESAURUS
water gate
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.For further exploring for "water gate" in Webster Dictionary Online