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sluicing |
2 definitions found 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]: sluicing adj : pouring from or as if from a sluice: "the sluicing rain"
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