Definition of Sluse

1. a floodgate [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sluse

slurpy
slurred
slurried
slurrier
slurries
slurriest
slurrily
slurring
slurring speech
slurringly
slurry
slurrying
slurs
slurve
slurves
sluse (current term)
sluses
slush
slush around
slush fund
slush funds
slush pile
slush piles
slushball
slushbox
slushboxes
slushed
slushes
slushie

Literary usage of Sluse

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

1. The Chronicle of Froissart by Jean Froissart (1902)
"Than he toke his horse and rode to the kyng, and so came to his tente before hym and the duke of Burgoyne; he shewed all the mater howe the towne of sluse ..."

2. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by Robert Chambers, David Patrick (1901)
"... flete was departed out of the ryver of Tames and toke the way to sluse. ... he came before sluse : and when he sawe so great a nombre of shippes that ..."

3. Specimens of English Literature from the 'Ploughmans Crede' to the by Walter William Skeat (1880)
"... tyll he cawe before 15 sluse: and whan he sawe so great a nombre of shippes that their mastes semed to be lyke a gret wood, ..."

4. Specimens of English Literature, from the 'Ploughmans Crede' to the by Walter William Skeat (1871)
"Of the baton on the see before sluse in ... before 15 sluse: and whan he sawe so great a nombre of shippes that their mastes semed to be lyke a gret wood, ..."

5. Specimens of English Literature from the 'Ploughmans Crede' to the by Walter William Skeat (1880)
"... tyll he came before 15 sluse: and whan he sawe so great a nombre of shippes thai their mastes semed to be lyke a gret wood, ..."

6. Specimens of English Literature from the 'Ploughmans Crede' to the by Walter W Skeat (1879)
"... tyll he came before 15 sluse: and whan he sawe so great a nombre of shippes thai their mastes semed to be lyke a gret wood, ..."

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