Crossword clues for sluice
sluice
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sluice \Sluice\, n. [OF. escluse, F. ['e]cluse, LL. exclusa, sclusa, from L. excludere, exclusum, to shut out: cf. D. sluis sluice, from the Old French. See Exclude.]
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.
Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon.
--Harte.This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of sensibility.
--I. Taylor. The stream flowing through a flood gate.
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(Mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
Sluice gate, the sliding gate of a sluice.
Sluice \Sluice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sluiced; p. pr. & vb. n. Sluicing.]
To emit by, or as by, flood gates. [R.]
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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. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, earlier scluse (mid-14c.), a shortening of Old French escluse "sluice, floodgate" (Modern French écluse), from Late Latin exclusa "barrier to shut out water" (in aqua exclusa "water shut out," i.e. separated from the river), from fem. singular of Latin exclusus, past participle of excludere "to shut out" (see exclude).
1590s, from sluice (n.). Related: Sluiced; sluicing.
Wiktionary
n. 1 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 Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. 3 The stream flowing through a flood gate. 4 (context mining English) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth. 5 (context linguistics English) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing. vb. 1 (context rare English) To emit by, or as by, flood gates. 2 To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. 3 To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice. 4 (cx linguistics English) To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See (term sluicing English).
WordNet
n. conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate [syn: sluiceway, penstock]
v. pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef" [syn: sluice down]
irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth" [syn: flush]
transport in or send down a sluice; "sluice logs"
draw through a sluice; "sluice water"
Wikipedia
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A sluice (from the Dutch "sluis") is a water channel controlled at its head by a gate. A mill race, 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.
Usage examples of "sluice".
That was because his father had known the laws of engineering and had opened the sluices at the head of the aqueduct exactly eighteen hours before the ceremony was due to reach its climax, and had ridden back into the city faster than the water could chase him.
Eventually Bando climbs the hill, closes the sluice gate, and comes to my outdoor kitchen.
He wondered when Corvinus and Becco had shut off the sluices at Abellinum.
But unless he sent Corvinus back to Abellinum almost immediately, Becco would follow his instruction, wait twelve hours, and reopen the sluices during the sixth watch of the night.
It was still a lot of work to get through in a night, before the first tongues of fresh water reached them from Abellinum, after Becco had reopened the sluices.
The Dilling ham lake drained, by way of a small stream and a sluice gate, into the River De ben, and Polly slipped through the little gate and took the riverside path.
Force, Ganner angles a shard of the Great Door to form a durasteel shield that sluices the acid to one side, so that it splashes to one wall.
It was a gutter, originally for shit and now for rainwater, a six-inch channel between the paving slabs that sluiced through grilles into the undercity at the furthest end.
I was trying to call her back to me, with a view to attaching a rope to her so she did not rush indoors before I had had a chance to sluice her down, when Nux found new excitement.
Violet enjoyed the beauty of every form displayed, but her eyes kept coming back to Mac, savoring each time he dropped beneath the surface to rewet his skull and came back up, water sluicing off his body, muscles rippling across his back as he pushed his hair off his forehead.
In their reflective surface, she could see Rud, his long length folded into the tub, sluicing his arms and shoulders with the steaming hot water.
She glanced up the long, straight, wooden sluice to the tower where the sledders began their runs in winter, remembering the feeling of shooting down toward the frozen river, gathering speed for the launch onto the ice.
Water trickled over rocks, sluicing down from highlands glimpsed beyond the sparse forest cover.
Jerna whispered above the prince, sluicing down on the breeze to curl protectively around his shoulders.
He looked around, to see a flood spiraling down on him, white water sluicing through an invisible pipe, a snake made of water.