Unlike the old guillotine-like sluices, these gates rotated slowly into position.
It's a piece of wisdom that seems obvious, especially when I find myself trying to describe the sensation of a wonderful 15-year-old Puligny-Montrachet with phrases like "sluicing a mouthful of pebbles".
The doors to the Matador Bar are like a sluice.
Mr. Lloyd catches and releases, like a sluice pipe.
Best of all, three bodyguards on a small plane "above the southern hallux of the Hindu Kush" stare out of the window "watching the dawn enfire the snow like paraffin sluicing through the valleys".
While earlier proposals like SecDeluge, Sluice, and Seluge require the first packet of every image transfer to be digitally signed, our scheme can easily amortise that cost over several image transfers (or indeed any arbitrary broadcast message transmissions) by using a sufficiently long key chain.
Mick Coombes, the bull-like, white club manager, sluices out the yellow skiff bins.
Without Muir's vision, his critics would have to get "real" jobs, like monitoring the sluices on the Great Yosemite Dam or being roughnecks on the Sequoia/Kings Canyon Fracking Project.
What that means of course is that there are bigger waterfalls elsewhere, but few have the violent drama of High Force as the water is squeezed through two sluice-like barriers of rock and tumbles 70ft to a plunge pool.
If the sleigh ride that was this inspection had just been given its initial push down the slope, it then proceeded to plunge, luge-like, down a sluice gate of detritus-flecked squalor.
"Street of Walls," with its grids and then dots, blue and yellow flooded with white and trailings of red, finishes with a relaxed zip of blue-green that sluices top to bottom, like Broadway heading downtown.
