penstock

1. 1.

   regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice

   Synonymssluicegatesluice valvefloodgatehead gatewater gate

   Broaderregulator

   Part ofsluice
2. 2.

   conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate

   Synonymssluicesluiceway

   Broaderconduit

   Partssluicegate

Other forms of penstock

plural

penstocks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about penstock

What does penstock mean?

penstock means "regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in penstock?

penstock has 2 syllables: pen-stock. The stress falls on "pen".

What is another word for penstock?

Close synonyms include sluicegate, sluice valve, floodgate, head gate, water gate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is penstock a common word?

penstock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.