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Word: sluice
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Meaning:
Noun:
- 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 of flood gate.
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
- mining A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
- The stream flowing through a flood gate.
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Verb:
- rare To emit by, or as by, flood gates. -Milton.
- To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice earth or gold dust in mining.
- To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt.
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