Sentence examples similar to sluice chamber from inspiring English sources

The two groups were evenly distributed with regards to weight, sex and litter origin, and kept in separate rooms, each accessible only through sluice chambers.

In the 15th century the lock-gate system was much improved with the addition of paddles to control the flow of water in and out of the lock chamber through sluices in the gates or sides of the lock.

Filling or emptying of the chamber is effected by manually or mechanically operated sluices.

Navigation to Sandtoft was made possible by the provision of a navigable sluice in the bank, which had lifting gates and a 50 by lock chamber.

The river is maintained at an artificially high level, and when the sluice is lowered falls a couple of metres to allow access to the fourth and fifth chambers, two small air spaces.

One hearty sluice was enough for me.

He shows me a sluice gate.

The sluice of sympathy is closing.

The doors to the Matador Bar are like a sluice.

Another hand method involves the use of a sluice box.

Gold miners in California at their sluice box, c. 1850.