sluicegate
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sluicegate
a valve or gate fitted to a sluice to control the rate of flow of water
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Who had opened the
sluicegates, let through this roaring?
In some places you can hear the
sluicegates gurgling under the gallery floor.
But it effectively opened the financial
sluicegates for today's vastly-overpaid stars.
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