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a gate that turns rivers into your obedient pets with a single levered command
means A sluice is a sliding gate or channel that controls the flow of water, or the act of washing something with a rushing stream of it.
from From Old French 'escluse,' meaning a floodgate or sluice, which traces back to Late Latin 'exclusa' — literally 'shut out,' from 'excludere' (to exclude or shut off). The same root that gives us 'exclude' also gives us the gate that shuts water out: a sluice is, etymologically, water held back by exclusion.
- old job
- powered medieval mills before electricity bossed water around
- gold roots
- prospectors used sluice boxes to catch sinking gold flakes
- flood control
- the Netherlands survives partly on disciplined sluice gates
- hidden verb
- to sluice means to drench or wash with rushing water
three gorges dam spillways — china's massive dam has 23 sluice gates controlling the yangtze river
thames barrier — london's flood defense system with 10 sluice gates protecting the city since 1984
aswan high dam — egypt's nile dam with multiple sluice gates regulating water flow since 1970