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sluice


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sluice  \Sluice\,  n.  [OF.  escluse  F.  ['e]cluse,  LL  exclusa 
  sclusa  from  L.  excludere  exclusum  to  shut  out:  cf  D. 
  sluis  sluice,  from  the  Old  French.  See  {Exclude}.] 
  1.  An  artifical  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.  (Mining)  A  long  box  or  trough  through  which  water  flows, 
  --  used  for  washing  auriferous  earth. 
 
  {Sluice  gate},  the  sliding  gate  of  a  sluice. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sluice  \Sluice\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Sluiced};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Sluicing}.] 
  1.  To  emit  by  or  as  by  flood  gates.  [R.]  --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  eart  or  gold  dust  in  mining. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sluice 
  n  :  carries  a  rapid  flow  of  water  controlled  by  a  sluicegate 
  [syn:  {sluiceway},  {penstock}] 
  v  1:  pour  as  if  from  a  sluice  [syn:  {sluice  down}] 
  2:  irrigate  with  water  from  a  sluice;  "sluice  the  earth"  [syn: 
  {flush}] 
  3:  flow  or  pour  from  or  as  if  from  a  sluice 
  4:  transport  in  or  send  down  a  sluice,  as  of  logs 
  5:  draw  through  a  sluice,  as  of  water 




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