Answer to "Channel with a gate" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SLUICE which also is the latest solution we found used in Unknown in 2000.

Channel with a gate crossword clue answers

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Answer Likelyness Letters
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Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Channel with a gate

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.
  • sluice
  • sluicing
  • field-effect transistor
  • gating
  • penstock
  • shuttle
  • shuttling
  • span
  • sprue
  • barbican
  • apron
  • aqueduct

Crossword Answer definitions

SLUICE noun
  1. An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
  2. A water gate or floodgate.
  3. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
  4. The stream flowing through a floodgate.
  5. A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
  6. An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
SLUICE verb
  1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
  2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
  3. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
  4. (more generally) To wash (down or out).
  5. To flow, pour.
  6. To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.

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