Definition of sluice

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

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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..
Unsluice :: Unsluice (v. t.) To sluice; to open the sluice or sluices of; to let flow; to discharge.
Clough :: Clough (n.) A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
Trunk :: Trunk (n.) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
Batardeau :: Batardeau (n.) A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall..
Flash :: Flash (n.) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal..
Sluice :: Sluice (n.) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth..
Sluicy :: Sluicy (a.) Falling copiously or in streams, as from a sluice..
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..
Riffle :: Riffle (n.) A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed; also, one of the cleats, grooves, or steps in such a trough. Also called ripple..
Sluice :: Sluice (n.) The stream flowing through a flood gate.
Sluiced :: Sluiced (imp. & p. p.) of Sluic.
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..
Paddle :: Paddle (v. i.) A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough.
Sasse :: Sasse (n.) A sluice or lock, as in a river, to make it more navigable..
Grizzly :: Grizzly (a.) In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices..
Sluice :: Sluice (n.) Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply..
Hatch :: Hatch (n.) A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
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