Sekirov Dictionary

sluice

/sluːs/

noun6

  1. 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.
  2. A water gate or floodgate.
  3. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
  4. A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
  5. The stream flowing through a floodgate.
  6. An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.

verb6

  1. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
  2. To wash (down or out).
  3. To flow, pour.
  4. (rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
  5. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
  6. To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
forms

sluiced · sluicing · sluices

Phrases with sluice

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