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Raresluice
The correct spelling is sluice.
How to pronounce sluice
/sluːs/
nounIPA: /sluːs/
Say it like: Slui-se
The correct spelling is sluice. An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow. For example: "to sluice meadows"
Usage Examples
“to sluice meadows”
Meanings
noun
- 1.An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
- 2.A water gate or floodgate.
- 3.Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
- 4.The stream flowing through a floodgate.
- 5.A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
verb
- 1.To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- 2.To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
- 3.To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
- 4.(more generally) To wash (down or out).
- 5.To flow, pour.
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