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Penstock   Listen
noun
Penstock  n.  
1.
A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses.
2.
The barrel of a wooden pump.





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"Penstock" Quotes from Famous Books



... of you! You should keep abreast of the age, my dear fellows. We might have settled it long ago, if you'd only spoken. Yes, four good turbines and a neat brick penstock—eh? This old Wheel's absurdly ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling
... natural genius for combining pleasure with business. This is the reason why, when he is sent to the spring for a pitcher of water, he is absent so long; for he stops to poke the frog that sits on the stone, or, if there is a penstock, to put his hand over the spout, and squirt the water ...
— McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey


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