beartrap gate
English
Alternative forms
- bear trap gate, beartrapgate, beartrap-gate, bear-trap-gate, bear-trap gate
Etymology
bear trap + gate. From being a gate reminiscent of the operation of a bear trap.
Noun
beartrap gate (plural beartrap gates)
- A waterflow/impoundment hydraulically-operated rising double-leaf floodgate used for weirs and dam spillways, and canals, to control waterflow across the top of the gate in the channel.
Coordinate terms
- crest gate
- radial gate
- stoplog
- Tainter gate