sluice Synonyms
sluice Meaning
sluice (n)
conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
sluice (v)
pour as if from a sluice
irrigate with water from a sluice
transport in or send down a sluice
draw through a sluice
sluice (n.)
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.
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
The stream flowing through a flood gate.
A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
sluice (v. t.)
To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
sluice Sentence Examples
- The miners used a sluice to separate gold from sediment in the riverbed.
- The sluice gate regulated the flow of water through the irrigation canal.
- The spaceship released waste into the sluice for disposal into space.
- The sluiceway provided a controlled passage for water to flow under the road.
- The sluice in the kitchen sink allowed the dirty water to drain away.
- The sluice box was designed to capture fine gold particles from ore.
- The heavy rain created a sluice of water down the driveway.
- The drainage sluice diverted excess rainwater away from the building.
- The sluice mechanism in the washing machine separated detergent from clothes.
- The dam's sluice gates were opened to release water for agricultural purposes.
FAQs About the word sluice
conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate, pour as if from a sluice, irrigate with water from a sluice, transport in or send down a
wash,rinse, flush, flood, wash out, flow,irrigate, drench, gush, swamp
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The miners used a sluice to separate gold from sediment in the riverbed.
The sluice gate regulated the flow of water through the irrigation canal.
The spaceship released waste into the sluice for disposal into space.
The sluiceway provided a controlled passage for water to flow under the road.
