Sluice
[sluːs] or [slus]
Definition
(noun.) conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate.
(verb.) irrigate with water from a sluice; 'sluice the earth'.
(verb.) draw through a sluice; 'sluice water'.
(verb.) transport in or send down a sluice; 'sluice logs'.
(verb.) pour as if from a sluice; 'An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef'.
Editor: Roxanne--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(n.) Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
(n.) The stream flowing through a flood gate.
(n.) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
(v. t.) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
(v. t.) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
(v. t.) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
Editor: Manuel
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Opening, vent.
Inputed by Hubert
Definition
n. a sliding gate in a frame for shutting off or regulating the flow of water: the stream which flows through it: that through which anything flows: a source of supply: in mining a board trough for separating gold from placer-dirt carried through it by a current of water: the injection-valve in a steam-engine condenser.—v.t. to wet or drench copiously: to wash in or by a sluice: to flush or clean out with a strong flow of water.—adj. Sluic′y falling in streams as from a sluice.
Editor: Will
Examples
- She sat down among the roots of the alder tree, dim and veiled, hearing the sound of the sluice like dew distilling audibly into the night. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- At the head of the steps was the lock of the sluice-gate. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He found a considerable quantity in the sluice-boxes of the Cherokee Valley Mining Company; but just then he found also that fruit-gardening was the thing, and dropped the subject. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- On Sundays he mostly lay all day on the sluice-gates, or stood against ricks and barns. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Thus Trabb's boy became their guide, and with him they went out to the sluice-house, though by the town way to the marshes, which I had avoided. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I knew very well, however, that the appointed place was the little sluice-house by the limekiln on the marshes, and the hour nine. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In a little while we had shut the door of the dark and empty sluice-house, and were passing through the quarry on our way back. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But Alva, when he had read these documents, did not wait for the opening of any more sluices. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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