penstock

n. 水闸门, 水道, 水渠 [机] 压力水管, 导水管

词形变化

penstocks 复数 penstocks

别名

pentstock

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A sluice or pipe which allows the controlled flow of water from behind a dam, typically routing it to a turbine of a power plant.

  2. 2.

    The barrel of a wooden pump.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 7

watergate sluice floodgate headgate sluice gate sluice valve sluiceway

上位词 2

conduit regulator

部分词 5

watergate floodgate headgate sluice gate sluice valve

整体词 2

sluice sluiceway

词源

Perhaps from pen (“an enclosure”) + stock.

来源：wiktionary