Sluice :: Sluice (n.) 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..

Sluice :: Sluice (n.) Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply..

Sluice :: Sluice (n.) The stream flowing through a flood gate.

Sluice :: Sluice (n.) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth..

Sluice :: Sluice (v. t.) To emit by, or as by, flood gates..

Sluice :: Sluice (v. t.) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows..

Sluice :: Sluice (v. t.) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining..

Sluiced :: Sluiced (imp. & p. p.) of Sluic.

Sluiceway :: Sluiceway (n.) An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery..

Sluicing :: Sluicing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sluic.

Sluicy :: Sluicy (a.) Falling copiously or in streams, as from a sluice..

Unsluice :: Unsluice (v. t.) To sluice; to open the sluice or sluices of; to let flow; to discharge.

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