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sluice |
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sluice Noun 1. a channel that carries a rapid current of water, with a sluicegate to control the flow 2. the water controlled by a sluicegate 3. same as sluicegate 4. Mining a sloping trough for washing ore Verb [sluicing, sluiced] 1. to draw off or drain with a sluice 2. to wash with a stream of water 3. (often foll. by away, out)(of water) to run or flow from or as if from a sluice [Old French escluse]
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sluice Translationsvt to sluice down or out → regar (also: sluice gate) → vanne f (channel) → (Wasch)rinne f vt to sluice down or out → abspritzen vt to sluice down or out → lavare (con abbondante acqua) |
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At the bottom of the smooth plaster wall there was a brick pulled out to make a sluice for the bath water, and as Rikki-tikki stole in by the masonry curb where the bath is put, he heard Nag and Nagaina whispering together outside in the moonlight. In our little town, which is a sample of many, life is as interesting, as pathetic, as joyous as ever it was; no group of weavers was better to look at or think about than the rivulet of winsome girls that overruns our streets every time the sluice is raised, the comedy of summer evenings and winter firesides is played with the old zest and every window-blind is the curtain of a romance. All of a sudden the lightning let go a perfect sluice of white glare, and somebody sings out: |
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