| Sluice (sluice) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Sluice |
| [OF. escluse, F.
écluse, 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.
Hence, an opening or channel through which
anything flows; a source of supply.
The stream flowing through a flood
gate.
A long box or trough
through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous
earth.
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| Sluice (sluice) |
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| v. t. | |
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| Sluice |
|
To emit by, or as by,
flood gates.
To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice]
as, to sluice meadows.
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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