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sluicing

The correct spelling is sluicing.

How to pronounce sluicing

verb

Say it like: Slui-sin-g

The correct spelling is sluicing. To emit by, or as by, flood gates. For example: "to sluice meadows"

Usage Examples

to sluice meadows

Meanings

verb

  1. 1.To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
  2. 2.To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
  3. 3.To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
  4. 4.(more generally) To wash (down or out).
  5. 5.To flow, pour.

noun

  1. 1.The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.
  2. 2.A kind of ellipsis, introduced by an interrogative, where (usually) everything except the interrogative is elided from the clause, as in "I like him, but I don't know why".

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