Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sluice or gate used to control a flow of water.
- noun A pipe or conduit used to carry water to a water wheel or turbine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In hydraulic engin., that part of the channel, conduit, or trough supplying water to a water-wheel which extends between the race and the gate through which the water flows to the wheel. It is generally made of planks or boards bound on the outside with stout timbers.
- noun A hydrant supplying water which is conveyed through a pipe from the source of supply.
- noun The barrel of a pump, in which the piston plays, and through which the water passes up.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses.
- noun The barrel of a wooden pump.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
sluice orpipe which allows the controlled flow ofwater from behind adam , typically routing it to aturbine of apower plant . - noun The
barrel of awooden pump .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice
- noun conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
Etymologies
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Examples
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The distance to the nearest penstock is 6,180 feet, in which length the fall in grade is 28 feet.
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They were working as contractors for Xcel inside a large, drained water pipe called a penstock when a fire erupted.
Xcel Trying To Suppress Federal Report On Deaths In Tunnel Fire 2010
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Aloft in a section of steel water-tunnel liner called a penstock, government officials view the Hoover Dam construction site.
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From there, an intake directs a portion of the river's flow into a buried pipe called a penstock, which sends it downhill and through a pair of turbines before returning it to the river.
James Glave: Backstage at a Run-of-River Green-Energy Project 2009
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The fire began at the hydroelectric plant on Oct. 2, 2007, while the workers were in a drained water tunnel, known as a penstock, connected to the plant, cleaning a sprayer with a flammable solvent.
Dallas Business News - Local Dallas News | Dallas Business Journal 2009
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The fire began at the hydroelectric plant on Oct. 2, 2007, while the workers were in a drained water tunnel, known as a penstock, connected to the plant, cleaning a sprayer with a flammable solvent.
Philadelphia Business News - Local Philadelphia News | The Philadelphia Business Journal 2009
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The fire began at the hydroelectric plant on Oct. 2, 2007, while the workers were in a drained water tunnel, known as a penstock, connected to the plant, cleaning a sprayer with a flammable solvent.
National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals 2009
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(iv) Installation costs - the pipes which take the water from the source to the turbine (known as the penstock pipes) can be lighter as water hammer is eliminated.
Chapter 6 1984
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McInnes is standing inside a eight-foot-diameter section of pipe, or "penstock" that will ultimately carry water to the project's turbines.
James Glave: Backstage at a Run-of-River Green-Energy Project 2009
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That evening it did not hurt her a particle, and concluding that what was good for one foot must be good for two, she put both under the "penstock" till they were almost congealed.
The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Ida Husted Harper 1891
qms commented on the word penstock
Poor Ernest was bored to despair
And damned his bad luck to be there.
There's only intense talk
Of turbine and penstock
At the hydroelectric dam fair.
Find out more about Ernest Bafflewit
January 30, 2016