sluice

sluice  (sls)

n.

1.

a. An artificial channel for conducting water, with a valve or gate to regulate the flow: sluices connecting a reservoir with irrigated fields.

b. A valve or gate used in such a channel; a floodgate: open sluices to flood a dry dock. Also called sluice gate.

2. A body of water impounded behind a floodgate.

3. A sluiceway.

4. A long inclined trough, as for carrying logs or separating gold ore.

v. sluiced, sluic·ing, sluic·es

v.tr.

1. To flood or drench with or as if with a flow of released water.

2. To wash with water flowing in a sluice: sluicing sediment for gold.

3. To draw off or let out by a sluice: sluice floodwater.

4. To send (logs, for example) down a sluice.

v.intr.

To flow out from or as if from a sluice.

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[Middle English scluse, from Old French escluse, from Late Latin exclsa, from Latin, feminine past participle of excldere, to shut out; see exclude.]

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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]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sluice - conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate sluiceway, penstock conduit - a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass; "the computers were connected through a system of conduits" head gate, penstock, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate, floodgate - regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice
Verb	1.	sluice - pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef" sluice down rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, pelt, stream, pour - rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!"
	2.	sluice - irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth" flush souse, soak, sop, dowse, drench, douse - cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face"
	3.	sluice - transport in or send down a sluice; "sluice logs" transport - move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
	4.	sluice - draw through a sluice; "sluice water" draw, take out - take liquid out of a container or well; "She drew water from the barrel"

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sluice

verb drain, cleanse, flush, drench, wash out, wash down

Translations

sluice [sluːs] n (gate) → esclusa (= channel); canal m

vt to sluice down or out → regar

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sluice [sluːs] n → écluse f;

(also: sluice gate) → vanne f

vt to sluice down or out → laver à grande eau

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sluice [sluːs] n → Schleuse f;

(channel) → (Wasch)rinne f

vt to sluice down or out → abspritzen

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sluice [sluːs] n → chiusa

vt to sluice down or out → lavare (con abbondante acqua)