Word Finder - sluice

noun

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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.

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A water gate or floodgate.

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Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.

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The stream flowing through a floodgate.

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A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.

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An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.

verb

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To emit by, or as by, flood gates.

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To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice

example

to sluice meadows

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To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.

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(more generally) To wash (down or out).

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To flow, pour.

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To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.

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