sluice

Meaning

Noun

1. An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
2. A water gate or floodgate.
3. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
4. The stream flowing through a floodgate.
5. A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
6. An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.

Verb

1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
3. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
4. To wash (down or out).
5. To flow, pour.
6. To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.

Concepts

sluice

lock

watergate

floodgate

flush

dam

water gate

penstock

gutter

sluice down

sluiceway

ditch

drain

sluice gate

conduit

dip

rinse

flood-gate

wash

outlet

chute

outpour

spout

flume

wash down

bathe

head gate

ablution

drench

wet all over

sluice-way

surplus-weir

jet

outflow

gush

sluice valve

weir

launder

flow table

bye channel

bye-wash

diver-sion cut

overfall

weir waste

reducer

restriction chock

drain hole

hush

pan

pan off

pan out

scour

wash up

flush down

leach

cavetto

coulisse

groove

raceway

runway

slideway

trough

boil down

calculate

cipher

come down

compute

count

cypher

debouch

decline

decrease

defervesce

depress

discharge

drop

ebb

ebb off

ebb out

enumerate

fall

figure

get down

go down

let

let down

lour

lower

number

numerate

posit

put down

rack

reckon

set

tap

trim down

work out

boards

race

slide

waterspout

canal

drainage ditch

waterways

canal lock

lock gate

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sluːs/

Etymology

From Middle English sluse, alteration of scluse, from Anglo-Norman escluse (“sluice, floodgate”), from Late Latin exclusa (“extrusion, gate”), from Latin exclūsus, form of exclūdō (“I shut out, I exclude”) (English exclude). Cognate to Dutch sluis.