Usage examples (8)

• 'Am I intoxicated, or, at least, was I till I turned the lock-gate winch and set the waters foaming?
• I love to see the mills turn out at twelve o'clock; it's like a living stream of human beings pouring out of a lock-gate, and
• Rowles went out, and his voice was heard in conversation with that of another man; then the lifting up of the sluices broke the stillness, and the creaking of the...
• “He fell off the lock-gate while the sluices were open …”