was it?; I think it was ...; if I've got it right; (I, we) used to ...; I remember ...; it was ...
sluice gate; water gate; flood gate
handle; steering wheel; handlebar; handlebars; handle; screen name
to turn; to rotate; to pass around; to send around; to move (someone or something to where its needed); to send; to turn (to a new use)
shore; bank (of a body of water)
water plant; aquatic plant; waterweed; hydrophyte
river surface; surface of a river
flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event
total darkness; pitch dark; bleak future; poor prospects
(electric) torch; flashlight
pile; pool; gathering spot; waiting place for a wrestler beside the ring; liquid runoff from miso preparation; tamari
to blaze; to burn brightly
to sink (into one's seat, etc.); to leap to one's death (by drowning); to be reduced to (esp. working as a prostitute)
sound of the wind; voice of the wind
curiously; curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange
tire track; traces of a person or thing; path one has taken; locus
to leave (behind); to leave (undone); to not finish; to save; to set aside; to leave (to someone, esp. after one's death)
to push out; to project; to stick out; to hand over (e.g. to the police)
fate; destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together); relationship (e.g. between two people); bond; family ties; affinity; opportunity
to stagger; to stumble; to totter; to misconduct oneself; to have a love affair; to waver
one round; one circuit; one revolution; one lap; one turn
to be turned up; to be lifted up (e.g. by the wind)
to advance; to go forward; to precede; to go ahead (of); to make progress; to improve; to deepen
the way there; outbound leg; bound for ...; outbound ticket
stopping at; going no further than
to ascertain; to check; to make sure
to climb; to clamber (over, up); to scramble (up); to scale; to claw one's way up
to crouch; to squat; to cower
to die; to lay down life's burden
moving about; stirring about
innumerable; countless; numberless
to rub together (e.g. one's hands)
to jump up; to start up; to leap to one's feet; to fly away; to take off
feather; plume; wing; shuttlecock (in badminton)
to spread; to extend; to unfold; to open; to scatter about; to spread around
to take back; to regain; to get back; to recover
to draw an arc (e.g. with a compass); to describe an arc (e.g. through the air)
to make sure of; to assure oneself of; to see with one's own eyes; to ascertain
in order to; for the purpose of; must; should