English Dictionary

sluice

/sluːs/

verb

(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.

He used a sluice to control the flow of water.

意味（1）

(transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.

Nigh on the plain, in many cells prepared, / That underneath had veins of liquid fire / Sluiced from the lake, a second multitude / With wondrous art founded the massy ore, / Severing each kind, and scummed the bullion-dross.

意味（2）

(transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice

Nine - mile Creek has been dug out again and again , and has been sluiced three times

意味（3）

(transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.

to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining

意味（4）

(transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out).

[…] he did plot the Duke of Gloucester's death, / Suggest his soon-believing adversaries, / And consequently, like a traitor coward, / Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood

意味（5）

(intransitive) To flow, pour.

In the trough behind the white wave / Helen shook her dark head, the water sluiced from her shoulders / And rose-tipped breasts.

意味（6）

(linguistics) To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.