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Definition of Sluice down

1. Verb. Pour as if from a sluice. "It was sluice downing all day long "; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sluice Down

Literary usage of Sluice down

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of the Late John Smeaton, F.R.S., Made on Various Occasions, in the by John Smeaton (1837)
"3d; That this work had 'a beneficial effect in scouring away the mud and sand that annoyed the harbour and channel from the mouth of the said sluice, down ..."

2. Transactions of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers by Canadian Society of Civil Engineers (1903)
"... may be uttered—it is not advisable to rock or sluice down to clean gold, but only to the showing of black sand, when the process should he stopped, ..."

3. History of British Columbia from Its Earliest Discovery to the Present Time by Alexander Begg (1894)
"From this flume each miner led a sluice down towards the river, his sluice being placed at such an angle that the water would run with sufficient force to ..."

4. Highways and Byways in the Border by Andrew Lang, John Lang (1914)
"... a view to any distance down stream, closed his sluice. Down Eden's bed surged a wave crested like some inrushing sea that sweeps far up a shingly beach. ..."

5. Biographical Dictionary of Well-known British Columbians: With a Historical by John Blaine Kerr (1890)
"... end along the whole length of the bar, and behind those claims which were being worked. From this flume each miner led a sluice down towards the river; ..."

6. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1847)
"... when the miller, altogether ignorant of their being there, had occasion to perform tho fatal operation on his mill sluice. Down came the river like a ..."

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