sluice

IPA: sɫˈus

An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
A water gate or floodgate.
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
The stream flowing through a floodgate.
(mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
(linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.

(transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
(transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
(transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
(transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out).
(intransitive) To flow, pour.
(linguistics) To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.

Examples of "sluice" in Sentences

'Tom' begat the sluice, which is of two kinds, natural and artificial.
Searching for a definition for the word "sluice," I naturally turned to my trusty friend,
Call you at half after five in the mornin ', an' you get up an 'take a' sluice '-- if there's any soap.
"Call you at half after five in the mornin ', an' you get up an 'take a' sluice '-- if there's any soap.
SLUICE ROBBER: one way of separating gold from the gravel and sand in which it is found is to put the mixture into a slanting trough, called a sluice, through which water is run.
And just as the miner makes the broken-down gold-bearing stuff run through his constructed sluices, Nature sends all her gold in a torrent into the natural sluice which is known as the Fraser Canyon.
All these brilliant images took possession of our fancies as soon as the boy had uttered the unlucky word "sluice;" and smiling to one another, we made up our minds to rest contentedly where we were.
This had what is called a sluice valve, and Lambert had been instructed to turn the screw which closed it round and round, until he found he could turn it no farther; when that was done, he would know that it was shut.
A kind of broad trough, running in a slanting direction and called a sluice, was on one side, and into this a quantity of wash was put, and a tap at the top turned on, which caused the water to wash the dirt down the sluice.