watergate

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This is a very personal, literal watergate, and it has made Selleck the new face of celebrity drought-shaming, a term of our times for high-profile people who flout state-mandated efforts to curb water consumption.

From The Guardian • Jul. 8, 2015

There it had been hoped to build a palace worthy of the Leauge of Nations with a magnificent watergate in memory of all the soldiers who were killed in the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

We were on an island and owned a watergate if we wanted to take a boat.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard

Matters came to a complete standstill; and shortly prior to his assassination the elder Villiers is reported to have stolen part of the stone for a watergate for his new town house.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch by Dimock, Arthur

The city, built on the skirt of a wall-like mountain, has a watergate and a landgate known as Bab al-Sákayn.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir