Definition of sluice Sluice

/sluˈs/ - [slus] - sluice

We found 23 definitions of sluice from 6 different sources.

What does sluice mean?

Noun Plural: sluices
sluice - conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
		sluiceway, penstock
		conduit a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass; "the computers were connected through a system of conduits"
Verb sluices, sluicing, sluiced
sluice - irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"
		flush
		dowse, drench, sop, souse, douse, soak use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal
sluice - draw through a sluice; "sluice water"
		take out, draw buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food; "We'll take out pizza, since I am too tired to cook"
sluice - transport in or send down a sluice; "sluice logs"
		transport move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body; "You must carry your camping gear"; "carry the suitcases to the car"; "This train is carrying nuclear waste"; "These pipes carry waste water into the river"
sluice - pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef"
		sluice down
		rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, pelt, stream, pour cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They pelted each other with snowballs"

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sluice (Noun)
An artificial 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.
sluice (Noun)
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
sluice (Noun)
The stream flowing through a flood gate.
sluice (Noun)
A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
sluice (Noun)
An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
sluice (Verb)
To emit by, or as by, flood gates. -Milton.
sluice (Verb)
To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt.
sluice (Verb)
To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question.

sluice (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.
sluice (n.)
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
sluice (n.)
The stream flowing through a flood gate.
sluice (n.)
A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
sluice (v. t.)
To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
sluice (v. t.)
To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
sluice (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
Vertical sliding gate or valve to regulate the flow of water in a channel or lock.

sluice
slōōs, n. a sliding gate in a frame for shutting off or regulating the flow of water: the stream which flows through it: that through which anything flows: a source of supply: in mining, a board trough for separating gold from placer-dirt carried through it by a current of water: the injection-valve in a steam-engine condenser.—v.t. to wet or drench copiously: to wash in or by a sluice: to flush or clean out with a strong flow of water.—adj. Sluic′y, falling in streams, as from a sluice. [O. Fr. escluse (Fr. écluse)—Low L. exclusa (aqua), a sluice (water) shut out, pa.p. of L. ex-cludĕre, to shut out.]