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pentrough
pentrough (ˈpɛntrɒf, -ɔː-) [f. pen n.1 3 + trough.] A trough, channel, or conduit, usually of planks or boards, constructed to convey the water from a head of water formed by a ‘pen’ (see pen n.1 3) to the place where its force is applied, as in a water-mill. (Cf. penstock1.)1793 Trans. Soc. Arts XI... Oxford English Dictionary
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penchute
penchute rare—0. (ˈpɛnʃuːt) [f. pen n.1 3 + chute n.1] = pentrough.1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 1657/1 Penchute, a trough conducting the water from the race to the water-wheel. Oxford English Dictionary
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Gayle, North Yorkshire
As the leat is boarded with timber, it is known as a pentrough. wikipedia.org
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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... Oxford English Dictionary
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Sidrapong Hydroelectric Power Station
Penstocks Water from the smaller reservoir is passed through a underground cast-iron pipe to a pentrough , the bottom of which is on the same level as The water runs from the pentrough down to the gates of the turbines through steel pipes long and inside diameter. wikipedia.org
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Medway watermills (lower tributaries)
The overshot waterwheel was replaced by a turbine but the pentrough remained. Papermaking had ceased before the First World War. The iron pentrough was dated 1887. wikipedia.org
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East Malling Stream
The iron pentrough was dated 1887. The final remains of Mill Hall Mill were demolished to make way for the foundations of a footbridge over the M20. wikipedia.org
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River Len
The mill had collapsed by the time Coles Finch visited it and was demolished in 1929, although the waterwheel and pentrough by Weeks of Maidstone survive wikipedia.org
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Loose Stream
The overshot waterwheel was replaced by a turbine but the pentrough remained. Papermaking had ceased before the First World War. wikipedia.org
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