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Definition of Sluice
1. Noun. Conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate.
Generic synonyms: Conduit
Terms within: Floodgate, Head Gate, Penstock, Sluice Valve, Sluicegate, Water Gate
2. Verb. Pour as if from a sluice. "It was sluiceing all day long "; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef"
3. Verb. Irrigate with water from a sluice. "Sluice the earth"
Generic synonyms: Douse, Dowse, Drench, Soak, Sop, Souse
Derivative terms: Flush
4. Verb. Transport in or send down a sluice. "Sluice logs"
5. Verb. Draw through a sluice. "Sluice water"
Definition of Sluice
1. 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.
2. v. t. To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
Definition of Sluice
1. Noun. An artificial 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. ¹
2. Noun. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. ¹
3. Noun. The stream flowing through a flood gate. ¹
4. Noun. (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth. ¹
5. Verb. (rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates. -Milton. ¹
6. Verb. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt. ¹
7. Verb. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice earth or gold dust in a (w sluice box) in (w placer mining). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sluice
1. to wash with a sudden flow of water [v SLUICED, SLUICING, SLUICES]
Medical Definition of Sluice
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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 of flood gate.
2. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. "Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon." (Harte) "This home familiarity . . . Opens the sluices of sensibility." (I. Taylor)
3. The stream flowing through a flood gate.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sluice
Literary usage of Sluice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Resources of California by John Shertzer Hittell (1867)
"In a branch of the Yuba there is, or was not long since, a tail-sluice twenty feet
... A tunnel-sluice is a sluice in a tunnel. It sometimes happens that a ..."
2. Mining in the Pacific States of North America by John Shertzer Hittell (1862)
"The Board sluice. § 113. The board sluice is the most important of all mining
... The larger and longer the sluice and the greater the amount of water, ..."
3. The Metallurgy of Gold by Thomas Kirke Rose (1898)
"The Siberian sluice, which is used to wash light sand 2. The Trommel, used for
loamy .sands. 3. The Pan, used for gravel which is cemented together by means ..."
4. The Metallurgy of Gold by Thomas Kirke Rose (1898)
"The Siberian sluice, which is used to wash light sand. 2. The Trommel, used for
loamy sands. 3. The Pan, used for gravel which is cemented together by means ..."
5. Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, Throughout by Joseph Priestley (1831)
"... between that and Strensham sluice, to Stratford, > 30 0I0 I6 I6 or any place
... to or below f ) and Pershore ) Evesham sluice, and any place between ..."
6. Mining and Engineering: And Miner's Guide by Henry A. Gordon (1894)
"The number of sluice-heads this would convey would be 3-325, and, as the velocity
of the former gradient was 8-694, therefore g^o = 2-667. ..."
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