Thesaurus: sluice

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1. n. An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.
2. n. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
3. n. The stream flowing through a flood gate.
4. n. A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
5. v. t. To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
6. v. t. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
7. v. t. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
8. n. conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
9. v. pour as if from a sluice
10. v. irrigate with water from a sluice
11. v. transport in or send down a sluice
12. v. draw through a sluice