Regional Names For Sluice Gates
In the Somerset Levels, sluice gates are known as clyse or clyce.
Most of the inhabitants of Guyana refer to sluices as kokers.
Sinhala people in Sri Lanka who had a harvested rain water based ancient civilization refer to sluices as Horovuwa.
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