from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
A long inclined trough, as for carrying logs or separating gold ore.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
A sluiceway.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
A valve or gate used in such a channel; a floodgate: open sluices to flood a dry dock. Also called sluice gate.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
An artificial channel for conducting water, with a valve or gate to regulate the flow: sluices connecting a reservoir with irrigated fields.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
verb-intransitive
To flow out from or as if from a sluice.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
verb
To draw off by or through a sluice.
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To wash with or in water running through or from a sluice.
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To drench with a sudden flow .
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To transport (as logs) in a sluice.
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To pour as if from a sluice.
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verb-transitive
To draw off or let out by a sluice: sluice floodwater.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
To flood or drench with or as if with a flow of released water.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
To send (logs, for example) down a sluice.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
To wash with water flowing in a sluice: sluicing sediment for gold.
from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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