Sluice

Word SLUICE
Character 6
Hyphenation sluice
Pronunciations /sluːs/

Definitions and meanings of "Sluice"

What do we mean by sluice?

An artificial channel for conducting water, with a valve or gate to regulate the flow. noun

A valve or gate used in such a channel; a floodgate. noun

A body of water impounded behind a floodgate. noun

A sluiceway. noun

A long inclined trough, as for carrying logs or separating gold ore. noun

To flood or drench with or as if with a flow of released water. intransitive verb

To wash with water flowing in a sluice. intransitive verb

To draw off or let out by a sluice. intransitive verb

To send (logs, for example) down a sluice. intransitive verb

To flow out from or as if from a sluice. intransitive verb

To open a flood-gate or sluice upon; let a copious flow of water on or in: as, to sluice a meadow.

To draw out or off, as water, by a sluice: as, to sluice the water into the corn-fields or to a mill.

To wet or lave abundantly.

To scour out or cleanse by means of sluices: as, to sluice a harbor.

To let out as by a sluice; cause to gush out.

A body of water held in check by a flood-gate; a stream of water issuing through a flood-gate. noun

A gate or other contrivance by which the flow of water in a waterway is controlled; a flood-gate; also, an artificial passage or channel into which water is allowed to enter by such a gate; a sluiceway; hence, any artificial channel for running water: as, a mill -sluice. noun

In mining, a trough made of boards, used for separating gold from the gravel and sand in which it occurs. noun

In steam-engines, the injection-valve by which the water of condensation is introduced into the condenser. 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.

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

An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.

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The word "sluice" in example sentences

Call you at half after five in the mornin ', an' you get up an 'take a' sluice '-- if there's any soap. ❋ Unknown (2010)

SLUICE ROBBER: one way of separating gold from the gravel and sand in which it is found is to put the mixture into a slanting trough, called a sluice, through which water is run. ❋ William Patterson Atkinson (N/A)

A kind of broad trough, running in a slanting direction and called a sluice, was on one side, and into this a quantity of wash was put, and a tap at the top turned on, which caused the water to wash the dirt down the sluice. ❋ Fergus Hume (1895)

This had what is called a sluice valve, and Lambert had been instructed to turn the screw which closed it round and round, until he found he could turn it no farther; when that was done, he would know that it was shut. ❋ Various (1873)

'Tom' begat the sluice, which is of two kinds, natural and artificial. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

"Call you at half after five in the mornin ', an' you get up an 'take a' sluice '-- if there's any soap. ❋ Jack London (1896)

And just as the miner makes the broken-down gold-bearing stuff run through his constructed sluices, Nature sends all her gold in a torrent into the natural sluice which is known as the Fraser Canyon. ❋ Morley Roberts (1899)

All these brilliant images took possession of our fancies as soon as the boy had uttered the unlucky word "sluice;" and smiling to one another, we made up our minds to rest contentedly where we were. ❋ Unknown (1842)

Searching for a definition for the word "sluice," I naturally turned to my trusty friend, ❋ Unknown (2009)

At present he was not washing out a diurnal thousand dollars; but his dumps grew, shift by shift, and there would come a time when those dumps would pass through his sluice-boxes, depositing in the riffles, in the course of half a dozen days, several hundred thousand dollars. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This monolith has been tempered by thousands of years of polishing wind, blowtorch sun, flood and rattling hail, sluice of rain. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

I closed my eyes and slathered myself with it, letting the water sluice it away from me. ❋ Kristine Douglas (2011)

He had noted the four quiet men sinking a shaft close by the stream, and he had heard their whip-saw going as they made lumber for the sluice boxes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Men cast hungry eyes upon the ownerless claim, where they knew a thousand-thousand dollars waited but shovel and sluice-box. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Carmack and his Indian relatives were occupied in building a sluice box and getting a head of water. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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