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. / A water gate or floodgate.

(transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates. / (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice / (transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.

plural of sluice

simple past tense and past participle of sluice

present participle of sluice

The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.

plural of sluicing

Alternative form of sluice gate

A portal which may be opened or closed to allow or prevent the passage of water through a man-made channel.

Alternative form of sluice box