sluice
[sloos] Show IPA
noun, verb, sluiced, sluic·ing.
–noun
1.
an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with agate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
2.
the body of water held back or controlled by a sluice gate.
3.
any contrivance for regulating a flow from or into areceptacle.
4.
a channel, esp. one carrying off surplus water; drain.
5.
a stream of surplus water.
6.
an artificial stream or channel of water for moving solidmatter: a lumbering sluice.
7.
Also called sluice box . Mining . a long, sloping trough or thelike, with grooves on the bottom, into which water isdirected to separate gold from gravel or sand.
–verb (used with object)
8.
to let out (water) by or as if by opening a sluice.
9.
to drain (a pond, lake, etc.) by or as if by opening a sluice.
10.
to open a sluice upon.
11.
to flush or cleanse with a rush of water: to sluice the decksof a boat.
12.
Mining . to wash in a sluice.
13.
to send (logs) down a sluiceway.
–verb (used without object)
14.
to flow or pour through or as if through a sluice.
Origin:
1300–50; ME scluse (n.) < OF escluse < LL exclūsa, a waterbarrier, n. use of fem. of L exclūsus, ptp. of exclūdere to exclude
—Related forms
sluicelike, adjective
un·der·sluice, noun
un·sluiced, adjective
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluice
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