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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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