Sluice

Quick meaning: Sluice is a noun meaning A water gate or floodgate.

Meaning

A water gate or floodgate.

More Meanings

1. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
2. The stream flowing through a floodgate.
3. (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
4. (linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
5. (transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
6. (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
7. An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.

Example Sentences

Each sluice of affluent fortune open'd soon.

This home familiarity […] opens the sluices of sensibility.

[…] he dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water.

Nine - mile Creek has been dug out again and again , and has been sluiced three times

Word Forms

• sluices
• sluicing
• sluiced

Synonyms for sluice

Depending on context, synonyms include flush, penstock, sluiceway.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sluiceway, penstock, flush, valve, tank, gate.

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