water gate

Questions about water gate

What does water gate mean?

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

What is another word for water gate?

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

water gate 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.