sluice valve

Questions about sluice valve

What does sluice valve mean?

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

What is another word for sluice valve?

Close synonyms include sluicegate, floodgate, penstock, 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 sluice valve a common word?

sluice valve 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.