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sluice; sluice gate / to dam up water / (coll.) brake / (coll.) electric switch
HSK 7-9
electric switch / circuit breaker
(of a circuit breaker or switch) to trip / to jump a turnstile
sluice / water gate / waterlocks / floodgate / lock / dam
brake (of a car, bicycle etc)
water intake / inlet sluice
handbrake
lower sluice gate / outflow sluice
rotor sluice gate
pneumatic brake
pneumatic brake / airlock
sluice-gate / flood discharge valve
a canal lock


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