'Am I intoxicated, or, at least, was I till I turned the lock-gate winch and set the waters foaming?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarah's School Friend] Reference

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 lock-gate as it opened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Littlebourne Lock] Reference

“He fell off the lock-gate while the sluices were open …”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret meets a Milord]

The upper lock-gate was opening, and the steamer about to move into the canal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Harbormaster]

A man walked past the lock-gate; as he walked under a lamp a gun-barrel glinted on his shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Harbormaster]

Then, suddenly, like an escape of water from under a lock-gate, a great uprush of horrible realisation set all his thoughts swirling, and simultaneously I perceived that the vein was cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories] Reference

It was the lock-gate slowly opening, and the sight was even more impressive when, where the man had been, there towered up, only a yard or so in front, a sheer, black wall, high as a house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Harbormaster]