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Definitions for Sluice

[1] an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
[2] the body of water held back or controlled by a sluice gate.
[3] any contrivance for regulating a flow from or into a receptacle.
[4] a channel, especially one carrying off surplus water; drain.
[5] a stream of surplus water.
[6] an artificial stream or channel of water for moving solid matter: a lumbering sluice.
[7] Also called sluice box . Mining . a long, sloping trough or the like, with grooves on the bottom, into which water is directed to separate gold from gravel or sand.
[8] to let out (water) by or as if by opening a sluice.
[9] to drain (a pond, lake, etc.) by or as if by opening a sluice.
[10] to open a sluice upon.
[11] to flush or cleanse with a rush of water: to sluice the decks of a boat.
[12] Mining . to wash in a sluice.
[13] to send (logs) down a sluiceway.
[14] to flow or pour through or as if through a sluice.
[15] Also called: sluiceway a channel that carries a rapid current of water, esp one that has a sluicegate to control the flow
[16] the body of water controlled by a sluicegate
[17] See sluicegate
[18] mining an inclined trough for washing ore, esp one having riffles on the bottom to trap particles
[19] an artificial channel through which logs can be floated
[20] informal a brief wash in running water
[21] (tr) to draw out or drain (water, etc) from (a pond, etc) by means of a sluice
[22] (tr) to wash or irrigate with a stream of water
[23] (tr) mining to wash in a sluice
[24] (tr) to send (logs, etc) down a sluice
[25] (intr; often foll by away or out) (of water, etc) to run or flow from or as if from a sluice
[26] (tr) to provide with a sluice

Words related to Sluice

flume, soak, gush, valve, pour, wash, douse, flush, gate, channel, trough

Words nearby Sluice

sluggard, sluggardly, slugger, slugging average, sluggish, sluice, sluicegate, sluiceway, sluit, slum, slumber

Origin of Sluice

1300–50; Middle English scluse (noun) < Old French escluse < Late Latin exclūsa, a water barrier, noun use of feminine of Latin exclūsus, past participle of exclūdere to exclude

Other words from Sluice

sluice·like , adjective
un·der·sluice , noun
un·sluiced , adjective

Word origin for Sluice

C14: from Old French escluse, from Late Latin exclūsa aqua water shut out, from Latin exclūdere to shut out, exclude

Synonyms for Sluice

channel, douse, flume, flush, gate, gush, pour, soak, trough, valve, wash