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Sluice

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 gate.

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Conduit 76% connected

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

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Douse 76% connected

To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.

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Dowse 76% connected

To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.

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Draw 76% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Drench 76% connected

To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.

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Pelt 76% connected

The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.

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Pour 76% connected

Poor.

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Soak 76% connected

To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the p…

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Sop 76% connected

Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten.

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Souse 76% connected

A corrupt form of Sou.

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Stream 76% connected

A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel,…

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Transport 76% connected

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

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Flush 74% connected

To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

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Flush 74% connected

To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

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Sluiceway 74% 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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Sluiceway 74% 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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Penstock 70% connected

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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Water gate 70% connected

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

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Flush 92% connected

To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Penstock 92% connected

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

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

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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