sluice /ˈslus/
水門,水閘,蓄水(vt.)泄洪,沖洗(vi.)奔流
Sluice n.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. The stream flowing through a flood gate.
4. Mining A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
Sluice gate, the sliding gate of a sluice.
Sluice, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sluiced p. pr. & vb. n. Sluicing ]
1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates. [R.]
2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. --De Quincey.
3. 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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sluice
n : conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a
sluicegate [syn: sluiceway, penstock]
v 1: pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across
the barrier reef" [syn: sluice down]
2: irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth" [syn:
flush]
3: transport in or send down a sluice; "sluice logs"
4: draw through a sluice; "sluice water"