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Sluice   /slus/   Listen
noun
Sluice  n.  
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 or flood gate.
2.
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. "Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon." "This home familiarity... opens the sluices of sensibility."
3.
The stream flowing through a flood gate.
4.
(Mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
Sluice gate, the sliding gate of a sluice.


verb
Sluice  v. t.  (past & past part. sluiced; pres. part. sluicing)  
1.
To emit by, or as by, flood gates. (R.)
2.
To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. "He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water."
3.
To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.





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"Sluice" Quotes from Famous Books



... provisions and tools and other baggage, winding like an endless stream of ants through the hills to "No Creek" Lee Creek, where they re-enacted the scenes that were occurring in the town. Tents and cabins were scattered throughout the length of the valley, lumber was sawed for sluice-boxes, and the virginal breezes that had sucked through this seam in the mountains since days primeval came to smell of spruce fires and echo with the ...
— The Barrier • Rex Beach
... mines are again classified according to the manner in which, or the instruments with which they are wrought. There are sluice claims, hydraulic claims, tunnel claims, dry washing, dry digging, and knife claims. In 1849 and 1850, the main classification of the placers was into wet diggings and dry diggings, the former meaning ...
— Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining • John S. Hittell
... the Pei-Ho are in many parts protected by breastworks of granite, to arrest inundation, and here and there dikes, also of granite, provided with a sluice, by means of which water is conveyed to the fields below. The country, although well cultivated, was often devastated by famines, following upon inundations, or resulting from the ravages ...
— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century • Jules Verne
... general watched all these preparations with the greatest vigilance. At high water he closed the west sluice, which let the water into the town ditch from the Old Haven, in the rear of Helmond, in order to retain as much water as possible, and stationed his troops at the various points most threatened. Sir Horace Vere and Sir Charles Fairfax, with twelve weak companies, ...
— By England's Aid or The Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604) • G.A. Henty
... was informed that I was sent directly to bed. "Call you at half after five in the mornin', an' you get up an' take a 'sluice'—if there's any soap. Then breakfast, same as supper, three parts o' ...
— The People of the Abyss • Jack London


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