1syllable
sluice
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Definitions ofsluice
1noun
- An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
- A water gate or floodgate.
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
- The stream flowing through a floodgate.
- A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
- An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
1verb
- To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
Example: "to sluice meadows"
- To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
- (more generally) To wash (down or out).
- To flow, pour.
- To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
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