'Sluice' definitions:
Definition of 'sluice'
(from WordNet)
noun
Conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate [syn: sluice, sluiceway, penstock]
verb
Pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef" [syn: sluice, sluice down]
verb
Irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth" [syn: sluice, flush]
verb
Transport in or send down a sluice; "sluice logs"
verb
Draw through a sluice; "sluice water"
Definition of 'Sluice'
From: GCIDE
- Sluice \Sluice\, n. [OF. escluse, F. ['e]cluse, LL. exclusa, sclusa, from L. excludere, exclusum, to shut out: cf. D. sluis sluice, from the Old French. See Exclude.]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. [1913 Webster]
- Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon. --Harte. [1913 Webster]
- This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of sensibility. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The stream flowing through a flood gate. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth. [1913 Webster]
- Sluice gate, the sliding gate of a sluice. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sluice'
From: GCIDE
- Sluice \Sluice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sluiced; p. pr. & vb. n. Sluicing.]
- 1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates. [R.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. --Howitt. [1913 Webster]
- He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sluice'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aboideau,
- air lock,
- aqueduct,
- arroyo,
- avenue,
- baptize,
- bath,
- bathe,
- bed,
- blow out,
- blowhole,
- canal,
- channel,
- chute,
- cloaca,
- cloaca maxima,
- creek bed,
- culvert,
- debouch,
- deluge,
- dip,
- dock gate,
- donga,
- door,
- douche,
- douse,
- drain,
- drain out,
- drench,
- drown,
- dry bed,
- duck,
- dunk,
- egress,
- empty,
- emunctory,
- escape,
- estuary,
- exhaust,
- exit,
- find vent,
- float,
- flood,
- flood-hatch,
- floodgate,
- flow,
- flow on,
- flow out,
- flume,
- flush,
- flush out,
- gargle,
- gate,
- gulch,
- gully,
- gullyhole,
- gush,
- gush out,
- gutter,
- head gate,
- headchute,
- headrace,
- holystone,
- inundate,
- irrigate,
- irrigation ditch,
- jet,
- kennel,
- lather,
- launder,
- lave,
- lock,
- lock gate,
- loophole,
- mop,
- mop up,
- nullah,
- opening,
- out,
- outcome,
- outfall,
- outflow,
- outgate,
- outgo,
- outlet,
- outpour,
- penstock,
- piscina,
- pore,
- port,
- pour,
- pour on,
- pour out,
- race,
- rain,
- rinse,
- rinse out,
- ritually immerse,
- river bed,
- riverway,
- roll,
- run out,
- runnel,
- sally port,
- scour,
- scrub,
- scrub up,
- scupper,
- sewer,
- shampoo,
- shower,
- sink,
- sluice gate,
- sluice out,
- soak,
- soap,
- sough,
- spew out,
- spillbox,
- spillway,
- spiracle,
- sponge,
- spout,
- spout out,
- spurt,
- stream,
- stream bed,
- streamway,
- submerge,
- sump,
- surge,
- swab,
- swamp,
- swash,
- swash channel,
- syringe,
- tailrace,
- tap,
- tide gate,
- toivel,
- tub,
- vent,
- ventage,
- venthole,
- vomit forth,
- vomitory,
- wadi,
- wash,
- wash out,
- wash up,
- water carrier,
- water channel,
- water furrow,
- water gap,
- water gate,
- watercourse,
- waterway,
- waterworks,
- way out,
- weir,
- well,
- well out,
- whelm