1) Artificial stream 2) Artificial water channel 3) Channel with a gate 4) Closable channel 5) Conduit 6) Control gate 7) Draw through a sluice 8) Flood-gated stream 9) Floodgate 10) French word used in English 11) Gated conduit 12) Gated water channel 13) Gold finding tool 14) Irrigation device 15) Man-made channel
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1) Clean 2) Floodgate 3) Race 4) Rinse 5) Shaft 6) Sluiceway
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A sluice (from the Dutch `sluis`) is a water channel controlled at its head by a gate. A mill race, leet, flume, penstock or lade is a sluice channelling water toward a water mill. The terms sluice, sluice gate, knife gate, and slide gate are used interchangeably in the water and wastewater control industry. A sluice gate is traditionally a wood.....
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• (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, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, ...
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(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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A mechanism for regulating water-flow from a gathering pond to a waterwheel, via a millrace or leat.
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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) 'This home familiarity . . . Opens the sluices of sen...
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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 .]
1. An artifical passage for water, fitted w...
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Sluice transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sluiced ; present participle & verbal noun Sluicing .] 1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates. [ R.] Milton. 2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to
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Type: Term Pronunciation: slūs Synonyms: waterfall
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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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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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sluiceway noun conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
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pour as if from a conduit that carries a rapid flow of water
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[Intelligent words] pour as if from a conduit that carries a rapid flow of water
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