sluice

Meaning of sluice

noun
  1. 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.
  2. A water gate or floodgate.
  3. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
  4. The stream flowing through a floodgate.
  5. A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
  6. An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
verb
  1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
  2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
    to sluice meadows
  3. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
  4. (more generally) To wash (down or out).
  5. To flow, pour.
  6. To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.

Information about sluice

  • The plural form of sluice is: sluices.
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Hyphenation of sluice

sluice

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • sluice is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

sluice synonyms

Meaning sluiceway:

sluiceway, penstock

Meaning flush:

flush

Translation of sluice

Anagrams of sluice

Icelus

Words that rhyme with sluice

juice, logjuice, verjuice, undersluice, unsluice

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