SLUICE

Sluice

A sluice is a water channel controlled at its head by a gate. A Millrace, leet, flume, penstock or lade is a sluice channelling water toward a water mill. The terms sluice, sluice gate, knife gate, and slide gate are used interchangeably in the water and wastewater control industry.

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sluice

Noun

  1. An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.
  2. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
    Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon. -Harte.
    This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of sensibility. -I. Taylor.
  3. The stream flowing through a flood gate.
  4. A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
  5. An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.

Verb

  1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates. -Milton.
  2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt.
    He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. -De Quincey.
  3. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice earth or gold dust in a in .
  4. To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question


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