If one piano teacher has too many students, she might sluice the spillover to you.
In 2002, the secretaries of interior and agriculture came in person to reopen the sluice gates.
The gates which were used at the Copperhouses pool sluice were found below ground behind the Hayle Harbour Office.
They were Spittal and Seaton Sluice in Northumberland, Seaham in County Durham and Seaton Carew North and Saltburn on Teesside.
The prime minister and the governor of Bangkok have even rowed in public over which of them has authority to open particular sluice gates.
Sluice gates that were used in Hayle in west Cornwall for more than 100 years are to be displayed in the town.
People living near Portavoe Reservoir outside Donaghadee have claimed that water levels have dropped recently after a sluice gate was left open.
In the summer, hike to redwood heights in Sluice Boxes State Park and spot white-tailed deer and bald eagles as you climb.
Officially unveiled in July, the flood defence pumps are part of a project that included earth embankments and a series of sluice gates.
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Pumps, working in tandem with sluice gates, were designed to allow the Hatfield brook, which runs through the village, to join the river during floods.
The current government is only the latest whose stated determination to sluice down the Augean stables of Wandsworth, Strangeways and Parkhurst has resulted in an ineffectual piddle.
In the small hours of June 1st, engineers began the third and final phase of the project when they closed 19 of the dam's 22 sluice gates.
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On July 20th, the Tigers closed the sluice gates of a dam, depriving thousands of families, mostly from the ethnic Sinhalese majority, of irrigation and drinking water.
And with every passing day the desire grows for the moment when life will reach the top, for the moment when the sluice gates open and life finally moves on.
The Grade I-listed hall, near the coastal town of Seaton Sluice, was built by Sir John Vanbrugh, and is widely regarded as one of the finest works of the English Baroque period.
And in May this year, judge Lady Dorrian widened the scope to include prisoners in Peterhead who had to use a porta-potty and stand in line to slop out into a public sluice.
Above all, this is a kind of writing that accommodates variety narrative and essay, the concrete and the theoretical, the general and the metaphorical (that image of our lives like boats in a lock, waiting for the sluice gates to open).
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