Definitions for sluice
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sluice, sluiceway, penstockverb

   conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate

2. sluice, sluice downverb

   pour as if from a sluice

   "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef"

3. sluice, flushverb

   irrigate with water from a sluice

   "sluice the earth"

4. sluiceverb

   transport in or send down a sluice

   "sluice logs"

5. sluiceverb

   draw through a sluice

   "sluice water"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sluicenoun

   An artificial 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. sluicenoun

   Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.

3. sluicenoun

   The stream flowing through a flood gate.

4. sluicenoun

   A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.

5. sluiceverb

   To emit by, or as by, flood gates. -Milton.

6. sluiceverb

   To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt.

   He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. -De Quincey.

7. sluiceverb

   To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice earth or gold dust in a in .

8. Etymology: escluse (écluse), from exclusa, sclusa, from

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SLUICEnoun

   A watergate; a floodgate; a vent for water.

   Etymology: sluyse, Dutch; escluse, French; sclusa, Italian.

   Two other precious drops that ready stood,
   Each in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell
   Kiss’d, as the gracious signs of sweet remorse,
   And pious awe, that fear’d to have offended. John Milton.

   Divine Alpheus, who, by secret sluice,
   Stole under seas to meet his Arethuse. John Milton.

   If we receive them all, they were more than seven; if only the natural sluices, they were fewer. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

   As waters from her sluices, flow’d
   Unbounded sorrow from her eyes:
   And sent her wailings to the skies. Matthew Prior.

2. To Sluiceverb

   To emit by floodgates.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   Like a traitor coward,
   Sluic’d out his inn’cent soul through streams of blood. William Shakespeare.

   Veins of liquid ore sluic’d from the lake. John Milton.

   You wrong me, if you think I’ll sell one drop
   Within these veins for pageants; but let honour
   Call for my blood, I’ll sluice it into streams;
   Turn fortune loose again to my pursuit,
   And let me hunt her through embattl’d foes
   In dusty plains; there will I be the first. John Dryden, Span. Fryar.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sluice

   Sluice ( SLOOS) is a word for a channel controlled at its head by a movable gate which is called a sluice gate. A sluice gate is traditionally a wood or metal barrier sliding in grooves that are set in the sides of the waterway and can be considered as a bottom opening in a wall. Sluice gates are one of the most common hydraulic structures in controlling flow rate and water level in open channels such as rivers and canals. They also could be used to measure the flow. A water channel containing a sluice gate forms a type of lock to manage the water flow and water level. It can also be an open channel which processes material, such as a River Sluice used in gold prospecting or fossicking. A mill race, leet, flume, penstock or lade is a sluice channeling water toward a water mill. The terms sluice, sluice gate, knife gate, and slide gate are used interchangeably in the water and wastewater control industry. They are also used in wastewater treatment plants and to recover minerals in mining operations, and in watermills.

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1. sluice

   A sluice is a type of gate or device for controlling the flow, level, or direction of water in a channel, pipe, or reservoir, often used in mining and waste management. It can also refer to the actual channel controlled by such a device. The term can also refer to the process of washing or rinsing with a flow of water.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sluicenoun

   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. Sluicenoun

   hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply

3. Sluicenoun

   the stream flowing through a flood gate

4. Sluicenoun

   a long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth

5. Sluiceverb

   to emit by, or as by, flood gates

6. Sluiceverb

   to wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows

7. Sluiceverb

   to wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining

8. Etymology: [OF. escluse, F. cluse, LL. exclusa, sclusa, from L. excludere, exclusum, to shut out: cf. D. sluis sluice, from the Old French. See Exclude.]

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1. Sluice

   A sluice is a water channel controlled at its head by a gate. A Millrace, leet, flume, penstock or lade is a sluice channelling water toward a water mill. The terms sluice, sluice gate, knife gate, and slide gate are used interchangeably in the water and wastewater control industry. A sluice gate is traditionally a wood or metal barrier sliding in grooves that are set in the sides of the waterway. Sluice gates commonly control water levels and flow rates in rivers and canals. They are also used in wastewater treatment plants and to recover minerals in mining operations, and in watermills.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sluice

   slōōs, n. 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: in mining, a board trough for separating gold from placer-dirt carried through it by a current of water: the injection-valve in a steam-engine condenser.—v.t. to wet or drench copiously: to wash in or by a sluice: to flush or clean out with a strong flow of water.—adj. Sluic′y, falling in streams, as from a sluice. [O. Fr. escluse (Fr. écluse)—Low L. exclusa (aqua), a sluice (water) shut out, pa.p. of L. ex-cludĕre, to shut out.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of sluice in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of sluice in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of sluice in a Sentence

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   Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=sluice
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sluice
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=sluice
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluice
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sluice
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=sluice
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=sluice