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Raresluicing
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.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.
noun
- 1.The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.
- 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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