sluice
IPA: sɫˈus
noun
- 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.
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "sluice" in Sentences
- The damage to dykes and sluices was immense.
- At the west end of the dam is a stone sluice gate.
- It was forbidden to obstruct the race or the sluice.
- The intake entry into the sluice is on the upstream side.
- Sluice gates are used to control the water flow to the fields.
- Rocks line the outside of the wood boards that create the sluice.
- The first sluice was built by the Adventurers in the 17th century.
- There was a movable sluice to control the water flow out of the bath.
- 'Tom' begat the sluice, which is of two kinds, natural and artificial.
- The impact of the closing and opening of the sluice gates was also examined.
- The Kaymakam puts soldiers to guard the sluice gates and prevent irrigation.
- 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.