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floodgate
ˈflood-ˌgate, ˈfloodˌgate 1. sing. and pl. A gate or gates that may be opened or closed, to admit or exclude water, esp. the water of a flood; spec. the lower gates of a lock.c 1440 Promp. Parv. 167/2 Flodegate of a mylle, sino⁓glocitorium. 1519 Churchw. Acc. St. Giles, Reading 3 For a tent next the...
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Anton's Gowt
A flood-gate, through which the marsh-water runs from the reens into the sea."
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Ghali Umar Na'Abba
parliamentary independence and development of the legislature and profound defence of democracy, rule of law and the constitution, Na’Abba has bagged a flood-gate
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unmeddled
unˈmeddled, ppl. a. [un-1 8.] † 1. Unmixed. Obs.c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 320 Love of Crist is not, but ȝif it be cleer, unmedlid wiþ errours. c 1449 Pecock Repr. i. x. 49 Euen as grammer and dyuynyte ben ij. dyuerse..kunnyngis, and therfore ben vnmedlid. 1555 W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. iv. I ...
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Aube (musician)
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Flood-Gate (water) (1993), G.R.O.S.S. 500 copies, Vanilla Records, Japan (Re-issued 2019)
Submerged Tension Remix (water) (1993), G.R.O.S.S
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penstock
▪ I. penstock1 (ˈpɛnstɒk) [f. pen n.1 + stock n.] 1. A sluice or flood-gate for restraining or regulating the flow from a head of water formed by a ‘pen’ (see pen n.1 3), as in a water-mill.1607 Cowell Interpr. s.v. Bay, Water comming out of them by a passage or flud-gate (called the penstocke). 172...
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flood
▪ I. flood, n. (flʌd) Forms: 1 flód, 2–6 flod(e, 3 flodd, fludd, 3–4 south. vlod(e, 4–6 floode, flude, (5 flowede, flowyd, fluyd, floth), 5–7 flud, 6 flodde, floud(d)e, fludde, 6–7 floud, Sc. fluid, 4– flood. [Com. Teut.: OE. flód str. masc. and neut. = OFris. and OS. flôd masc., fem. and neut. (MDu...
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weir
▪ I. weir, n. (wɪə(r)) Forms: α. 1–2 wer, 3–8 were, 5 werre, 5–7 weere, 5–8 weer; 5, 7 ware, 6–8 weare, 7–9 wear; 6–7 weire, weyre, 7– weir; 6–8 wier. β. 6–7 wyre, (7 wyer), 7–8 wire. [OE. wer m., = OS. werr, MLG. wer, weer, weir, were (LG. wêr, were), MHG. wer, were (G. wehr, † währ; dial. wier) ne...
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cob
▪ I. cob, n.1 (kɒb) Also 5–6 cobbe. [Used in a number of senses having but little apparent connexion with each other, and possibly of diverse origin. The notions may be roughly distinguished of ‘something big or stout’, ‘something rounded or forming a roundish lump’, ‘a head or top’; but these are i...
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rive
▪ I. † rive, n.1 Obs. Forms: 3–5 ryue, 4–6 ryve, 4, 6 riue. [a. OF. rive:—L. rīpa bank.] a. The sea-shore. b. The bank of a river.a 1300 K. Horn 142 Bliþe beo we on lyue, Vre schup is on ryue. c 1320 Sir Tristr. 1369 Now bringeþ me atte riue Schip and oþir þing. 1390 Gower Conf. III. 49 Whan they he...
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shuttle
▪ I. shuttle, n.1 (ˈʃʌt(ə)l) Forms: 1 sciutil, scytel, 4–9 (now dial.) shittle, 5 shotil, shetil, schytle, schetyl(le, s(c)hutylle, 6 shetyll, shuttyll, shyttel(l, shittell, shettle, shoottle, 7 shutle, shuttel, 6– shuttle. [OE. scytel ? masc.:—prehistoric *skutil f. Teut. root *skut-: see shoot v. ...
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hatch
▪ I. hatch, n.1 (hætʃ) Forms: 1 hæc(c, 3–7 hacche, 4 hach, hachch, 4–6 hache, 5–7 hatche, 6 acche, 6– hatch. β. 1 hec(c, 5 hecche, hetche, 5–6 hech(e. [OE. hæc, genit. hæcce, less commonly hęc (the umlaut of a before cc being generally æ instead of ę: Sievers §89. 1 Anm. 1):—WGer. *hakjā-: cf. MLG. ...
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trunk
▪ I. trunk, n. (trʌŋk) Forms: 5–7 tronk, tronke, troncke, (7 tronck), 5–7 trunke, 6 trounk, trounke, (tronque, troonke, trouncke), 6–7 truncke, 6–8 trunck, 6– trunk. [a. F. tronc (12th c.), ad. L. truncum, acc. of truncus main stem or stock of a tree, the human body, a piece cut or broken off, etc. ...
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head
▪ I. head, n.1 (hɛd) Forms: 1 héafod, -ud, -ut, 1–2 heofod, 2 hefed, -et, heavet, 2–3 heafd, hæfed, 2–4 hefd, heaved, 2–5 heved, 3 hæfd, heifd, hafed, hafd, hafved, hæfved, hefved, hæved, (hæhved), hevod, hevd, 3–5 hevid, -yde, 3–6 heed, 3–8 hed, 4 hewid(e, -yd(e, 4–7 hede, 6– head; (5–6 heede, hedd...
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