ALL meanings of sluicing
sluice
S s - noun sluicing an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow. 1
- noun sluicing the body of water held back or controlled by a sluice gate. 1
- noun sluicing any contrivance for regulating a flow from or into a receptacle. 1
- noun sluicing a channel, especially one carrying off surplus water; drain. 1
- noun sluicing a stream of surplus water. 1
- noun sluicing an artificial stream or channel of water for moving solid matter: a lumbering sluice. 1
- noun sluicing 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 sluicing to let out (water) by or as if by opening a sluice. 1
- verb with object sluicing to drain (a pond, lake, etc.) by or as if by opening a sluice. 1
- verb with object sluicing to open a sluice upon. 1
- verb with object sluicing to flush or cleanse with a rush of water: to sluice the decks of a boat. 1
- verb with object sluicing Mining. to wash in a sluice. 1
- verb with object sluicing to send (logs) down a sluiceway. 1
- verb without object sluicing to flow or pour through or as if through a sluice. 1