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sluice
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. / A water gate or floodgate.
sluice
(transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates. / (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice / (transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
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sluices
sluiced
sluicings
sluicing
sluicing
The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.
sluice boxes
plural of sluice box
sluice box
A box with riffles along the bottom, used to trap heavier gold particles as water washes them and the other material along the box.
sluice gate
A portal which may be opened or closed to allow or prevent the passage of water through a man-made channel.