Sluice-gate

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of sluice gate. alt-of, alternative

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"Gradlon, as is so often the case with pious men, had a wayward child, the princess Dahut, who on one occasion while her father was sleeping gave a secret banquet to her lover, in which the pair, excited with wine, committed folly after folly, until at last it occurred to the frivolous girl to open the sluice-gate."

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