Look up: sluice

1. Sluice
   A sluice is a water channel that is controlled at its head by a gate (from the Dutch word `sluis`). For example, a millrace is a sluice that channels water toward a water mill. The terms "sluice gate", "knife gate", and "slide gate" are used interchangeably in the water/wastewater control industry. A sluice gate is traditionally a wooden o...
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2. sluice
   [n] - conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate 2. [v] - pour as if from a sluice 3. [v] - flow or pour from or as if from a sluice 4. [v] - transport in or send down a sluice, as of logs 5. [v] - draw through a sluice, as of water 6. [v] - irrigate with water from a sluice
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3. Sluice
   A mechanism for regulating water-flow from a gathering pond to a waterwheel, via a millrace or leat.
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4. sluice
   a conduit for carrying water at high velocity which can, if desired, be closed by a sluice gate; 2)an opening in a structure for passing debris; 3)tocause water to flow at high velocities for wastage, for purposes of excavation, ejecting debris, etc Category: Building industry
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5. Sluice
   Sluice noun [ Old French escluse , French écluse , Late Latin exclusa , sclusa , from Latin excludere , exclusum , to shut out: confer Dutch sluis sluice, from the Old French. See Exclude .]
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6. Sluice
   Sluice transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sluiced ; present participle & verbal noun Sluicing .] 1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates. [ R.] Milton. 2. ...
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7. sluice
   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 of flood gate. ... 2. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. 'Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon.' (Harte) 'Th...
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8. sluice
   sluiceway noun conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
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9. Sluice
   • (v. t.) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. • (v. t.) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining. • (n.) The stream flowing through a flood gate. • (n.) An artifical passage for water, ...
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10. sluice
    (from the article `canals and inland waterways`) ...water is drawn out until the lock level is again even with the lower pound, and the downstream gates are opened. Filling or emptying of the ...
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11. Sluice
    A sluice is a gate for water, hence the term sluice is most commonly applied to a structure on a river, canal, etc, with an adjustable gate or gates by which the volume or flow of water is controlled. The term sluice is also applied to the body of water so controlled by the structure.
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12. sluice
    Type: Term Pronunciation: slūs Synonyms: waterfall
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