ALL meanings of sluice
sluice
S s - noun sluice water channel, canal 1
- noun sluice water gate 1
- transitive verb sluice drain, empty of water 1
- transitive verb sluice flush with water 1
- noun sluice an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow. 1
- noun sluice the body of water held back or controlled by a sluice gate. 1
- noun sluice any contrivance for regulating a flow from or into a receptacle. 1
- noun sluice a channel, especially one carrying off surplus water; drain. 1
- noun sluice a stream of surplus water. 1
- noun sluice an artificial stream or channel of water for moving solid matter: a lumbering sluice. 1
- noun sluice Also called sluice box. Mining. a long, sloping trough or the like, with grooves on the bottom, into which water is directed to separate gold from gravel or sand. 1
- verb with object sluice to let out (water) by or as if by opening a sluice. 1
- verb with object sluice to drain (a pond, lake, etc.) by or as if by opening a sluice. 1
- verb with object sluice to open a sluice upon. 1
- verb with object sluice to flush or cleanse with a rush of water: to sluice the decks of a boat. 1
- verb with object sluice Mining. to wash in a sluice. 1
- verb with object sluice to send (logs) down a sluiceway. 1
- verb without object sluice to flow or pour through or as if through a sluice. 1
- countable noun sluice A sluice is a passage that carries a current of water and has a barrier, called a sluice gate, which can be opened and closed to control the flow of water. 0
- verb sluice If you sluice something or sluice it down or out, you wash it with a stream of water. 0
- noun sluice a channel that carries a rapid current of water, esp one that has a sluicegate to control the flow 0
- noun sluice the body of water controlled by a sluicegate 0
- noun sluice an inclined trough for washing ore, esp one having riffles on the bottom to trap particles 0
- noun sluice an artificial channel through which logs can be floated 0
- noun sluice a brief wash in running water 0
- verb sluice to draw out or drain (water, etc) from (a pond, etc) by means of a sluice 0
- verb sluice to wash or irrigate with a stream of water 0
- verb sluice to wash in a sluice 0
- verb sluice to send (logs, etc) down a sluice 0
- verb sluice (of water, etc) to run or flow from or as if from a sluice 0
- verb sluice to provide with a sluice 0
- noun sluice an artificial channel or passage for water, having a gate or valve at its head to regulate the flow, as in a canal or millstream 0
- noun sluice the water held back by or passing through such a gate 0
- noun sluice a gate or valve used in opening or closing a sluice; floodgate 0
- noun sluice any channel, esp. one for excess water 0
- noun sluice a sloping trough or flume through which water is run, as in washing gold ore, carrying logs, etc. 0
- verb transitive sluice to draw off by or as by means of a sluice 0
- verb transitive sluice to wash with water flowing in or from a sluice 0
- verb transitive sluice to wash off with a rush of water 0
- verb transitive sluice to carry (logs, etc.) in a sluice 0
- intransitive verb sluice to run or flow in or as in a sluice 0