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Meaning of 'sluice'
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. [ n.]- 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. [ v. t.]- 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]
[ v]Meaning (1):
- pour as if from a sluice
- 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
- transport in or send down a sluice
Example in sentence:
- sluice logs
Meaning (3):
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- irrigate with water from a sluice
Example in sentence:
- sluice the earth
Meaning (4):
- draw through a sluice
- draw through a sluice
Example in sentence:
- sluice water
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