sluicegate

British  

/ ˈsluːsˌɡeɪt /

noun

1. Sometimes shortened to: sluice.  a valve or gate fitted to a sluice to control the rate of flow of water See also floodgate

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Example Sentences

Far from draining the swamp, he is opening the sluicegates; the money men are not so much being hurled out as in full occupation of the economic citadel.

From The Guardian

But if you can convince people the data are true as opposed to the mesofacts, then you open the sluicegates.”

From Salon

Then, all at once, someone opened the sluicegates and the rain bombarded them.

From Project Gutenberg

Under the reign of Louis Bonaparte the waters were collected into a large canal protected by three enormous sluicegates, and from that time the Rhine flows directly to the sea.

From Project Gutenberg

Then every man understood what was done, for they had been log-drivers all their lives, and knew the signs of a loosed sluicegate or of a broken jam.

From Project Gutenberg