aboideau

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• aboideau — noun A tide gate, as on a creek or river, so constructed as to let out water at low tide, but to prevent an influx of water at high tide …   Wiktionary

• aboideau — aboi·deau …   English syllables

• aboideau — …   Useful english dictionary

• English words with uncommon properties — For the purposes of this article, any word which has appeared in a recognised general English dictionary published in the 20th century or later is considered a candidate. For interest, some archaic words, non standard words and proper names are… …   Wikipedia

• air lock — Synonyms and related words: aboideau, access, adit, approach, corridor, dock gate, entrance, entranceway, entry, entryway, flood hatch, floodgate, gangplank, gangway, gate, hall, head gate, in, ingress, inlet, intake, lock, lock gate, means of… …   Moby Thesaurus

• floodgate — Synonyms and related words: aboideau, air lock, avenue, blowhole, channel, chute, debouch, dock gate, door, egress, emunctory, escape, estuary, exhaust, exit, flood hatch, flume, gate, head gate, lock, lock gate, loophole, opening, out, outcome,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• gate — Synonyms and related words: French door, aboideau, access, admissions, air lock, arch dam, archway, assemblage, attendance, audience, avails, back door, backstop, ball cock, ball valve, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, barway, bear… …   Moby Thesaurus

• lock — Synonyms and related words: aboideau, accord, agree, air lock, answer to, articulate, assent, assort with, authority, bang, bar, barricade, barrier, batten, batten down, be consistent, be of one, be uniform with, bear hug, bind, block, block up,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• penstock — Synonyms and related words: aboideau, air lock, chute, dock gate, eaves trough, flood hatch, floodgate, gate, guide, gutter, head gate, lock, lock gate, pentrough, shoot, sluice, sluice gate, tide gate, trough, water gate, weir …   Moby Thesaurus

• sluice — Synonyms and related words: aboideau, air lock, aqueduct, arroyo, avenue, baptize, bath, bathe, bed, blow out, blowhole, canal, channel, chute, cloaca, cloaca maxima, creek bed, culvert, debouch, deluge, dip, dock gate, donga, door, douche, douse …   Moby Thesaurus

• tide gate — Synonyms and related words: aboideau, air lock, direct tide, dock gate, ebb, ebb and flow, ebb tide, flood, flood tide, flood hatch, floodgate, flow, flux, flux and reflux, full tide, gate, head gate, high tide, high water, lock, lock gate, low… …   Moby Thesaurus