Associations to the word «Sluice»

SLUICE, noun. 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.

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

SLUICE, noun. The stream flowing through a flood gate.

SLUICE, noun. (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.

SLUICE, noun. (linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.

SLUICE, verb. (rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.

SLUICE, verb. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.

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

SLUICE, verb. (linguistics) To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.

SLUICE BOX, noun. 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 BOXES, noun. Plural of sluice box

SLUICE GATE, noun. A portal which may be opened or closed to allow or prevent the passage of water through a man-made channel.

SLUICE GATE, noun. (figuratively) Something which restrains or releases a substantial volume—a flood—of activity, emotion, etc.

SLUICE GATES, noun. Plural of sluice gate

SLUICE, noun. Conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate.

SLUICE, verb. Pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef".

SLUICE, verb. Irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth".

SLUICE, verb. Transport in or send down a sluice; "sluice logs".

SLUICE, verb. Draw through a sluice; "sluice water".