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Definition of Sluice

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

2. Noun. Conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate.

3. Verb. Irrigate with water from a sluice. "Sluice the earth"

4. Verb. Transport in or send down a sluice. "Sluice logs"

5. Verb. Draw through a sluice. "Sluice water"

Definition of Sluice

1. 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.

2. v. t. To emit by, or as by, flood gates.

Definition of Sluice

1. 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. ¹

2. Noun. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. ¹

3. Noun. The stream flowing through a flood gate. ¹

4. Noun. (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth. ¹

5. Verb. (rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates. -Milton. ¹

6. Verb. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt. ¹

7. Verb. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice earth or gold dust in a (w sluice box) in (w placer mining). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sluice

1. to wash with a sudden flow of water [v SLUICED, SLUICING, SLUICES]

Medical Definition of Sluice

1. 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. 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)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sluice

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