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Meaning of 'sluice' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . 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.
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
- The stream flowing through a flood gate.
- A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
2 . Sluice [ v. t.]
- To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
- To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.

Meaning of 'sluice' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . sluice [ v]
Meaning (1):
- pour as if from a sluice
Example in sentence:
  • An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef
Meaning (2):
- transport in or send down a sluice
Example in sentence:
  • sluice logs
Meaning (3):
- irrigate with water from a sluice
Example in sentence:
  • sluice the earth
Meaning (4):
- draw through a sluice
Example in sentence:
  • sluice water

Nearby Words:

slub slubbed slubber slubberdegullion slubbered slubbering slubberingly slubbing sludge sludger

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