sluice

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. Source: opted

2. n. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. Source: opted

3. n. The stream flowing through a flood gate. Source: opted

4. n. A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth. Source: opted

5. v. t. To emit by, or as by, flood gates. Source: opted

6. v. t. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

8. n. conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate Source: wordnet

9. v. pour as if from a sluice Source: wordnet

10. v. irrigate with water from a sluice Source: wordnet

11. v. transport in or send down a sluice Source: wordnet

12. v. draw through a sluice Source: wordnet

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