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English

Etymology

escluse, écluse, exclusa, sclusa, from excludere, exclusum, to shut out: confer sluis sluice, from the Old French. See exclude.

Pronunciation


Noun

  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 of flood gate.
  2. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
  3. : Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon. -Harte.
  4. : This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of sensibility. -I. Taylor.
  5. The stream flowing through a flood gate.
  6. A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.


Translations

See also


Verb

  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.
  3. : He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. -De Quincey.
  4. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice earth or gold dust in mining.


References

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
[1913 Webster]

2. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows;
a source of supply.
[1913 Webster]

Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon.
--Harte.
[1913 Webster]

This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of
sensibility. --I. Taylor.
[1913 Webster]

3. The stream flowing through a flood gate.
[1913 Webster]

4. (Mining) A long box or trough through which water flows,
-- used for washing auriferous earth.
[1913 Webster]

Sluice gate, the sliding gate of a sluice.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Sluice \Sluice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sluiced; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sluicing.]
1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates. [R.] --Milton.
[1913 Webster]

2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice
meadows. --Howitt.
[1913 Webster]

He dried his neck and face, which he had been
sluicing with cold water. --De Quincey.
[1913 Webster]

3. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a
sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet sluice
n : conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a
sluicegate [syn: sluiceway, penstock]
v 1: pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across
the barrier reef" [syn: sluice down]
2: irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth" [syn:
flush]
3: transport in or send down a sluice; "sluice logs"
4: draw through a sluice; "sluice water"
Moby Dictionary
aboideau , air lock , aqueduct , arroyo , avenue , baptize , bath , bathe ,
bed , blow out , blowhole , canal , channel , chute , cloaca ,
cloaca maxima , creek bed , culvert , debouch , deluge , dip , dock gate ,
donga , door , douche , douse , drain , drain out , drench , drown ,
dry bed , duck , dunk , egress , empty , emunctory , escape , estuary ,
exhaust , exit , find vent , float , flood , flood-hatch , floodgate ,
flow , flow on , flow out , flume , flush , flush out , gargle , gate ,
gulch , gully , gullyhole , gush , gush out , gutter , head gate ,
headchute , headrace , holystone , inundate , irrigate ,
irrigation ditch , jet , kennel , lather , launder , lave , lock ,
lock gate , loophole , mop , mop up , nullah , opening , out , outcome ,
outfall , outflow , outgate , outgo , outlet , outpour , penstock ,
piscina , pore , port , pour , pour on , pour out , race , rain , rinse ,
rinse out , ritually immerse , river bed , riverway , roll , run out ,
runnel , sally port , scour , scrub , scrub up , scupper , sewer ,
shampoo , shower , sink , sluice gate , sluice out , soak , soap , sough ,
spew out , spillbox , spillway , spiracle , sponge , spout , spout out ,
spurt , stream , stream bed , streamway , submerge , sump , surge , swab ,
swamp , swash , swash channel , syringe , tailrace , tap , tide gate ,
toivel , tub , vent , ventage , venthole , vomit forth , vomitory , wadi ,
wash , wash out , wash up , water carrier , water channel ,
water furrow , water gap , water gate , watercourse , waterway ,
waterworks , way out , weir , well , well out , whelm


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