"penstock" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Perhaps from pen (“an enclosure”) + stock.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "penstocks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "penstock (plural penstocks)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, page 30",
          "text": "It amazes him still, this effortless journey powered by the fall of water. Water surging through tunnel and penstock.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sluice or pipe which allows the controlled flow of water from behind a dam, typically routing it to a turbine of a power plant."
      ],
      "id": "en-penstock-en-noun-CXDP2Dvb",
      "links": [
        [
          "sluice",
          "sluice"
        ],
        [
          "pipe",
          "pipe"
        ],
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ],
        [
          "dam",
          "dam"
        ],
        [
          "turbine",
          "turbine"
        ],
        [
          "power plant",
          "power plant"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "sense": "sluice or pipe",
          "word": "بربخ - أنبوب مفرِّغ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "šljuz",
          "sense": "sluice or pipe",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "шлюз"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "sluice or pipe",
          "word": "tulokanava"
        },
        {
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "sluice or pipe",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "conduite forcée"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "sluice or pipe",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Druckrohrleitung"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The barrel of a wooden pump."
      ],
      "id": "en-penstock-en-noun-ffwD8Pkk",
      "links": [
        [
          "barrel",
          "barrel"
        ],
        [
          "wooden",
          "wooden"
        ],
        [
          "pump",
          "pump"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "pentstock"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "penstock"
  ],
  "word": "penstock"
}

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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Perhaps from pen (“an enclosure”) + stock.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "penstocks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, page 30",
          "text": "It amazes him still, this effortless journey powered by the fall of water. Water surging through tunnel and penstock.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sluice or pipe which allows the controlled flow of water from behind a dam, typically routing it to a turbine of a power plant."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sluice",
          "sluice"
        ],
        [
          "pipe",
          "pipe"
        ],
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ],
        [
          "dam",
          "dam"
        ],
        [
          "turbine",
          "turbine"
        ],
        [
          "power plant",
          "power plant"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The barrel of a wooden pump."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "barrel",
          "barrel"
        ],
        [
          "wooden",
          "wooden"
        ],
        [
          "pump",
          "pump"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "pentstock"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "sluice or pipe",
      "word": "بربخ - أنبوب مفرِّغ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "šljuz",
      "sense": "sluice or pipe",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "шлюз"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sluice or pipe",
      "word": "tulokanava"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "sluice or pipe",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "conduite forcée"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "sluice or pipe",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Druckrohrleitung"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "penstock"
  ],
  "word": "penstock"
}