| sluice | 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." (Harte) "This home familiarity . . . Opens the sluices of sensibility." (I. Taylor) 3. The stream flowing through a flood gate. 4. <chemical> A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth. Sluice gate, the sliding gate of a sluice. Origin: OF. Escluse, F. Ecluse, LL. Exclusa, sclusa, from L. Excludere, exclusum, to shut out: cf. D. Sluis sluice, from the Old French. See Exclude. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| sluiceway | A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sluice | conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate |
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| sluice | irrigate with water from a sluice |
| sluice | draw through a sluice, as of water |
| sluice | transport in or send down a sluice, as of logs |
| sluice | flow or pour from or as if from a sluice |
| sluice | pour as if from a sluice |
| sluice | pour as if from a sluice |
| sluice | regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice |
| sluice | regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice |
| sluice | conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate |
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