Definition of Sluiceway

1. Noun. Conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate.

Exact synonyms: Penstock, Sluice
Generic synonyms: Conduit
Terms within: Floodgate, Head Gate, Penstock, Sluice Valve, Sluicegate, Water Gate
Derivative terms: Sluice, Sluice, Sluice, Sluice

Definition of Sluiceway

1. n. An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery.

Definition of Sluiceway

1. Noun. a man-made channel designed to redirect excess water ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sluiceway

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Medical Definition of Sluiceway

1. A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sluiceway

sluggishnesses
sluggy
slughorn
slughorns
sluglike
slugs
slugworm
slugworms
sluice
sluice down
sluice valve
sluiced
sluicegate
sluicelike
sluices
sluiceway (current term)
sluiceways
sluicier
sluiciest
sluicing
sluicy
sluing
sluit
sluits
slum
slum area
slumber
slumber parties
slumber party
slumbered

Literary usage of Sluiceway

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"In their complaint the plaintiffs say they are the owners of a piece of land adjoining a sluiceway running out of and into ..."

2. Forms of Pleading in Actions for Legal Or Equitable Relief: Prepared with by Austin Abbott, Carlos Coolidge Alden (1898)
"That the defendant wrongfully maintained an embankment, composed of coal slack, with an insufficient culvert or sluiceway thereunder, after the plaintiff ..."

3. Irrigation Practice and Engineering by Bernard Alfred Etcheverry (1916)
"Settling Basin, sluiceway and Sand Gate on Lower Yellowstone Project, Montana, North Dakota (Fig. 82). ..."

4. The University Geological Survey of Kansas by Erasmus Haworth, Kansas Geological Survey (1904)
"Tailings Elevator sluiceway—The sluiceway or launder that bears the tailings from the elevator to the tailings pile is supported by a frame or trestle work ..."

5. L.R.A. as Authorities: Including the Citations of Each Case as Precedent, (1 by Lawyers' reports annotated, United States Supreme Court (1913)
"Hemingway, 22 LRA 45, which holds sluiceway between parts of bridge not a watercourse. Malicious erection of fence. tiled in note (40 LRA 177) on liability ..."

6. Special Laws of the State of Maine Passed by the Legislature by Maine (1839)
"... sluiceway Company, to construct a sluiceway over or by the ... Falls in struct sluiceway. Waterville in the County of Kennebec on the same terms and ..."

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