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n. An artificial channel for conducting water, with a valve or gate to regulate the flow: sluices connecting a reservoir with irrigated fields.

n. A valve or gate used in such a channel; a floodgate: open sluices to flood a dry dock. Also called sluice gate.

n. A body of water impounded behind a floodgate.

n. A sluiceway.

n. A long inclined trough, as for carrying logs or separating gold ore.

v. To flood or drench with or as if with a flow of released water.

v. To wash with water flowing in a sluice: sluicing sediment for gold.

v. To draw off or let out by a sluice: sluice floodwater.

v. To send (logs, for example) down a sluice.

verb-intransitive. To flow out from or as if from a sluice.

n. 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.

n. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.

n. The stream flowing through a flood gate.

n. A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.

v. To emit by, or as by, flood gates. -Milton.

v. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt.

v. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining.

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.

n. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.

n. The stream flowing through a flood gate.

n. A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.

v. To emit by, or as by, flood gates.

v. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice.

v. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.

n. A body of water held in check by a flood-gate; a stream of water issuing through a flood-gate.

n. A gate or other contrivance by which the flow of water in a waterway is controlled; a flood-gate; also, an artificial passage or channel into which water is allowed to enter by such a gate; a sluiceway; hence, any artificial channel for running water: as, a mill -sluice.

n. In mining, a trough made of boards, used for separating gold from the gravel and sand in which it occurs.

n. In steam-engines, the injection-valve by which the water of condensation is introduced into the condenser.

n. A tubulure or pipe through which water is directed at will.

To open a flood-gate or sluice upon; let a copious flow of water on or in: as, to sluice a meadow.

To draw out or off, as water, by a sluice: as, to sluice the water into the corn-fields or to a mill.

To wet or lave abundantly.

To scour out or cleanse by means of sluices: as, to sluice a harbor.

To let out as by a sluice; cause to gush out.

n. Same as flume, 4.

In lumbering: Same as flume, 2.

To float (logs) through the sluiceway of a splash-dam. Same as splash, 5.

To injure (as a team of horses or their driver) by the down-rush of a load of logs due to the breaking of the hawser used to control its descent over a steep slope.

v. transport in or send down a sluice

n. conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate

v. pour as if from a sluice

v. irrigate with water from a sluice

v. draw through a sluice

"Call you at half after five in the mornin ', an' you get up an 'take a' sluice '-- if there's any soap."

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