Floodgate, a sluice: Ven. 959. H4A II, 4, 435. Adjectively: “my grief is of so f. and o'erbearing nature,” Oth. I, 3, 56 (i. e. has the impetuosity of a mighty flood rushing through an opened sluice).
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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