The sluiceway of Skulltree dam was open and in the caldron of the gorge a yeasty flood boiled and the sunlight painted rainbows in the drifting spume.
Except for the roar of the sluiceway and the gasping of the men who were getting breath there was something like calm after the uproar of the battle.
When the dull rumble of the sluiceway waters informed her that she was near the camp of the enemy she went more cautiously, and when she heard the voices of men she called, announcing that she desired to speak with Director Craig.
Defn: A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.
Engineering) Defn: A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.
Park & Van Buren, who are building a new draining system at the lake, tried to avert the disaster by digging a sluiceway on one side to ease the pressure on the dam.
Immediately he turned his force of twenty-five Italians to opening an extra waste sluiceway in addition to the one that had always answered before.
They did all they could to try and avert the disaster by digging a sluiceway on one side to ease the pressure on the dam, but their efforts were fruitless.
Between the reflex current from the creek on top, and the undertow from the sluiceway beneath, he was buffeted about considerably before he succeeded in emerging on the spit of land between the mill and the creek.
Further investigation showed Ned that the saw mill abutted on the corner of the dam, and that a narrow sluiceway conducted the water to the machinery.
He could not escape, for the removal of the plank from the sluiceway made the place literally an island.
With cautious strokes they paddled on until a sudden glimpse of the sluiceway leading under the mill caused them to pull up short.
The plank over that sluiceway makes a lot of racket, and the scoundrel may hear us and slip away.
Once or twice a sudden change in the direction of the sluiceway nearly brought them to grief, and on one occasion Nat slipped off his plank.
Beyond the lake, on the other side, the sluiceway continued on, but there was a gap of several hundred feet.
An old hermit showed Sid the place, but it's been most a year since we repaired this old sluiceway which was here before we came and begun washing, and not more than enough to pay expenses have we had out of it.
They had entered the sluiceway at a place where there was scarcely any current.
As the boys passed under the sluiceway trestle Jack exclaimed: "See, here is a sort of path, and it leads right up the valley.
The next instant the two boys were being whirled down the sluiceway on top of the water at a swift pace.
The sluiceway was about four feet wide and three feet deep, and there was a great quantity of water flowing through it.
Part of the sluiceway was wider and more shallow, and this part had, nailed across the bottom, narrow strips of wood, in the shape of cleats.
Tell them that Mother opened the sluiceway to save the dam and Father shut it to hear it roar, and it busted!
Kate said she had all the music she desired; she proposed to be safe; so she went and opened the sluiceway to reduce the pressure on the dam.
Logs were shooting from the apron of the sluiceway and leaping to the lift of the foaming back-water, like lean hunters taking the billowy top of a wind-tossed hedge.
A figure came toward where he stood and called to him, but the roar of the water through the sluiceway drowned his voice.
At the same time a channel was dug on the west end of the dam to make a sluiceway there.
This sluiceway was really a new stream, the water passing off through it finding its picturesquely winding course down the hillside and running with the stream again some distance below the dam.
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