flood-hatch
[see hatch.]
A framework of boards sliding in grooves, to be raised in time of flood; a sluice, floodgate. lit. and fig.
| 1587 Turberv. Epit. & Sonn. (1837) 299, I cannot liue if you doe stoppe, the floudhatch of your frendly brook. 1596 C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 26 Let downe The floud-hatches of all spectators eies. 1806 Wolcott (P. Pindar) Tristia Wks. 1812 V. 340, I close the flood-hatch of your praise. 1807 Vancouver Agric. Devon. (1813) 319 At the end..another flood-hatch is fixed on a level with the bed of the river. 1880 in W. Cornw. Gloss. |