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flood-gate2: strong stream, torrent; used adj.= torrential Oth. I. iii. 56 “my . . . grief Is of so and o'erbearing nature.” ∥ Cf. ‘Out of her gored wound the cruell steele He lightly snatcht, and did the floud-gate stop With his faire garment,’ Spenser.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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