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.
  • 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.

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