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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