sluices

Meaning of sluices

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.

Information about sluices

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of sluices is: sluice.
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Hyphenation of sluices

sluices

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • sluices is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of sluices

Celsius, celsius

Words that rhyme with sluices

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