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Definition of Sluiceway
1. Noun. Conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate.
Generic synonyms: Conduit
Terms within: Floodgate, Head Gate, Penstock, Sluice Valve, Sluicegate, Water Gate
Derivative terms: Sluice, Sluice, Sluice, Sluice
Definition of Sluiceway
1. n. An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery.
Definition of Sluiceway
1. Noun. a man-made channel designed to redirect excess water ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sluiceway
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Medical Definition of Sluiceway
1. A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sluiceway
Literary usage of Sluiceway
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"In their complaint the plaintiffs say they are the owners of a piece of land
adjoining a sluiceway running out of and into ..."
2. Forms of Pleading in Actions for Legal Or Equitable Relief: Prepared with by Austin Abbott, Carlos Coolidge Alden (1898)
"That the defendant wrongfully maintained an embankment, composed of coal slack,
with an insufficient culvert or sluiceway thereunder, after the plaintiff ..."
3. Irrigation Practice and Engineering by Bernard Alfred Etcheverry (1916)
"Settling Basin, sluiceway and Sand Gate on Lower Yellowstone Project, Montana,
North Dakota (Fig. 82). ..."
4. The University Geological Survey of Kansas by Erasmus Haworth, Kansas Geological Survey (1904)
"Tailings Elevator sluiceway—The sluiceway or launder that bears the tailings from
the elevator to the tailings pile is supported by a frame or trestle work ..."
5. L.R.A. as Authorities: Including the Citations of Each Case as Precedent, (1 by Lawyers' reports annotated, United States Supreme Court (1913)
"Hemingway, 22 LRA 45, which holds sluiceway between parts of bridge not a watercourse.
Malicious erection of fence. tiled in note (40 LRA 177) on liability ..."
6. Special Laws of the State of Maine Passed by the Legislature by Maine (1839)
"... sluiceway Company, to construct a sluiceway over or by the ... Falls in struct
sluiceway. Waterville in the County of Kennebec on the same terms and ..."
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