SLUICE
\slˈuːs], \slˈuːs], \s_l_ˈuː_s]\
Definitions of SLUICE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef"
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draw through a sluice; "sluice water"
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transport in or send down a sluice; "sluice logs"
By Princeton University
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pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef"
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transport in or send down a sluice, as of logs
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flow or pour from or as if from a sluice
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
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The stream flowing through a flood gate.
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To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
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To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
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To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
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A long box or trough through which water flows, - used for washing auriferous earth.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
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The stream flowing through a flood gate.
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To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
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To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
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To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
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A long box or trough through which water flows, - used for washing auriferous earth.
By Noah Webster.
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A gate for regulating the flow of water in a canal, etc.; hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a stream of water issuing through a floodgate.
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To wash with water from, or as from, a sluice; as, to sluice gold; sluice gate, an apparatus for holding in or letting out water from a canal or other channel; a floodgate.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A sliding gate in a frame for shutting off or regulating the flow of water: the stream which flows through it: that through which anything flows: a source of supply.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To operate with a sluice; wash in a sluice.
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An artificial channel for conducting water, or the stream so conducted; a flume.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A gate for the purpose of excluding or regulating the flow of water in a river, a canal, &c.; a source of supply; that through which anything flows.
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To open, as a flood-gate; to overwhelm; to wet abundantly.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [French, Dutch , German , Latin] A water-gate ; flood-gate;— an Artificial passage for water fitted with a sliding valve or gate for regulating the flow;-hence, any opening; that from which any tiling flows;—the stream which flows through a flood-gate;—hence, any stream or source of supply; channel.
