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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 sluicing
      adj : pouring from or as if from a sluice; "the sluicing rain"