meaning of sluices
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.
2. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
3. The stream flowing through a flood gate.
4. A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
5. To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
6. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
7. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
8. conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
Related Words
sluice | sluice down | sluice valve | sluiced | sluicegate | sluiceway | sluicing | sluicy |
