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Meaning Of Sluice
n.
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 or flood gate.
n.
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows;
a source of supply.
n.
The stream flowing through a flood gate.
n.
A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for
washing auriferous earth.
v. t.
To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
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.