Definition of sluices Sluices
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Wiktionary 
- sluices (Noun)
Plural of sluice.
Part of speech
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NounPlural: sluices |
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| 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" | ||
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| 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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Wiktionary
- 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.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- 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.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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sluice
Vertical sliding gate or valve to regulate the flow of water in a channel or lock.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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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.]
