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locality. There is a Dutch word 'spui' of frequent use in Holland, meaning a sluice way or canal. The Spui at The Hague, part of which is redeemed and used as...

locality. There is a Dutch word 'spui' of frequent use in Holland, meaning a sluice way or canal. The Spui at The Hague, part of which is redeemed and used as...

Seaton Sluice is a village in Northumberland. It lies on the coast at the mouth of the Seaton Burn (a small river), midway between Whitley Bay and Blyth...

1618, with the construction of sluices and locks. Bedford could be reached by river from 1689. A major feature was the sluice at Denver, which failed in 1713...

River Wandle) Norbury Brook Falconbrook River Effra River Neckinger Earl's Sluice River Peck River Quaggy (partially underground) (sub tributary of River...

Forty-Foot Drain, also known as the Black Sluice Navigation, is the main channel for the land-drainage of the Black Sluice Level in the Lincolnshire Fens. It...

as a quay. Once construction of the Grand Sluice was completed in 1766, they used a wharf above the sluice. On The Haven, boats used Packhouse Quay, subsequently...

left of the obstacle known as the long bypass. The second way to bypass the Little Sluice is to drive up Toyota Rock. Toyota Rock is to the right toward...

from these banks there are views of the surrounding countryside. Denver Sluice, being at the confluence of five watercourses, was first built across the...

each 9.3 metres (31 ft) high and 14 metres (46 ft) wide. The bottom sluice way is controlled by three fixed wheel gates of 3 by 2.5 metres (9.8 ft × 8...

flooding of the lower Brue Valley. Huntspill Sluice at the river's western end, also known as West Huntspill Sluice, separates it from the River Parrett. A...

rush to start sluicing Donovan Cut. Karl comes up with a clever way to motivate his crew. Chris and Nika's operation is halted by a sluice plant breakdown...

of gold or tin, the resulting water-sediment slurry is directed through sluice boxes to remove the gold. It is also used in mining kaolin and coal. Hydraulic...

of furniture Portable partition, a form of temporary walls Ljubljanica Sluice Gate, or the Partition (Pregrada) Division of the field, or partition of...

England. It provides an almost straight channel between Earith and Denver Sluices. It is tidal, with reverse tidal flow being clearly visible at Welney,...

fish are attracted to a collecting pool by an outflow of water through a sluice gate. At fixed intervals, the gate is closed, and water from the upper level...

a port. From 1142 onwards, sluices were constructed to prevent flooding by the sea, and this culminated in the Great Sluice, which was constructed in 1766...

finds the bed of the stream dry, because the water has been shutoff at a sluice way. Thus, his cattle had been driven across the dry stream and then the water...

through the open sluice gate at slack tide, ending up trapped for several days in the upper part of the river before eventually finding its way out. "Annapolis...

. upper .. thirty acres ... feeds an adjacent pond of 11 acres by way of a sluice ... both .. about 20 feet deep The History of Brittas, Brittas Community...