'Sluicing' definitions:
Definition of 'sluicing'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Pouring from or as if from a sluice; "the sluicing rain"
Definition of 'Sluicing'
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]