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 Universal uClick in 2015.
Floodgate crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SLUICE | 87 % | 6 |
| DAM | 13 % | 3 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Floodgate
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- water gate
- penstock
- sluicegate
- head gate
- sluice valve
- flood
- open
- opening
- sluices
- sluice
- opened
- deluge
Crossword Answer definitions
SLUICE noun- 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.
- A water gate or floodgate.
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
- The stream flowing through a floodgate.
- A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
- An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
- To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
- To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
- (more generally) To wash (down or out).
- To flow, pour.
- To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
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More clues leading to the result SLUICE
- Channel with a gate
- Wet channel
- Artificial water channel
- Regulated channel
- Water channel
- Man-made channel
- Gated conduit
- Gold miner's water trough
- Floodgate
- Irrigation device