sluice

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/sluːs/ English

Definitions

noun

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.
A water gate or floodgate.
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
The stream flowing through a floodgate.

verb

To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice“to sluice meadows”
To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
(more generally) To wash (down or out).

Related words

Synonyms

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Associated

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Rhymes

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