sluice

[Sluice]

Anything that resembles a water slide with a gate is a sluice a narrow channel that controls water flow.

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An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate of flood gate.

Noun
conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate

Verb
irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"

Verb
draw through a sluice; "sluice water"

Verb
transport in or send down a sluice; "sluice logs"

Verb
pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef"

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n.
An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.

n.
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.

n.
The stream flowing through a flood gate.

n.
A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.

v. t.
To emit by, or as by, flood gates.

v. t.
To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.

v. t.
To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.

Sluice

Sluice , n. [OF. escluse, F. '82cluse, LL. exclusa, sclusa, from L. excludere, exclusum, to shut out: cf. D. sluis sluice, from the Old French. See Exclude.] 1. An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate of flood gate. 2. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.

Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon.

This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of sensibility.

3. The stream flowing through a flood gate. 4. (Mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth. Sluice gate, the sliding gate of a sluice.

Sluice

Sluice, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sluiced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sluicing .] 1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates. [R.] Milton. 2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt.

He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water.

3. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.

An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate of flood gate.

To emit by, or as by, flood gates.

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