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Sluicing

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Sluicing is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of sluice.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of sluice.

More Meanings

  1. The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.
  2. (linguistics) A kind of ellipsis, introduced by an interrogative, where (usually) everything except the interrogative is elided from the clause.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sluiceway, penstock, flush, sousing, suffusion, diluviation.

sluicewaypenstockflushsousingsuffusiondiluviationdesludgingilluviationwateringlixiviationhushingaffusionliquefactioninsuccationleachingwettingfluviationspuddlerinsing

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