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 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.