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Penstock

A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses.

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Conduit 76% connected

A pipe, canal, channel, or passage for conveying water or fluid.

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Regulator 76% connected

One who, or that which, regulates.

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Sluice 70% connected

An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood ga…

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Sluiceway 70% connected

An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubb…

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Water gate 70% connected

A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated.

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Sluice 92% connected

An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood ga…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sluiceway 92% connected

An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubb…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Water gate 92% connected

A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated.

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Administration noun · 78% connection

The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting…

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Application noun · 78% connection

Hence, in specific uses: (a) That part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied t…

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Aqueduct noun · 78% connection

A conductor, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying water, especially one for supplying large cities with water.

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Backboard noun · 78% connection

A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the whee…

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Breasting noun · 78% connection

The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circu…

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Breastwheel noun · 78% connection

A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but gene…

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Bucket noun · 78% connection

One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddl…

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Conduct noun · 78% connection

That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.

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Counterbalance noun · 78% connection

A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the w…

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Crown wheel unknown · 78% connection

A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.

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Dynamiter noun · 78% connection

One who uses dynamite; esp., one who uses it for the destruction of life and property.

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Electrotonic adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to electrical tension; -- said of a supposed peculiar condition of a conducting circuit during its exposure to the ac…

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Flange noun · 78% connection

An external or internal rib, or rim, for strength, as the flange of an iron beam; or for a guide, as the flange of a car wheel (see Ca…

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Flume noun · 78% connection

A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydra…

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Furl verb · 78% connection

To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or arou…

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Intake noun · 78% connection

The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; -- opposed to outlet.

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Kingston valve unknown · 78% connection

A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a vessel below the water line.

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Leader noun · 78% connection

A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.

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