SLUICE

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NOUN
  • Definition - 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.
  • Definition - A water gate or floodgate.
  • Definition - Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
  • Definition - The stream flowing through a floodgate.
  • Definition - A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
  • Definition - An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
VERB
  • Definition - To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
  • Definition - To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
  • Example - to sluice meadows
  • Definition - To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
  • Example - to sluice meadows
  • Definition - (more generally) To wash (down or out).
  • Example - to sluice meadows
  • Definition - To flow, pour.
  • Example - to sluice meadows
  • Definition - To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
  • Example - to sluice meadows
Words in your word
6 Letter Words
sluice 8
5 Letter Words
ceils 7 clues 7 luces 7 slice 7 sulci 7 ileus 5 lieus 5
4 Letter Words
ceil 6 cels 6 clue 6 cues 6 ecus 6 ices 6 lice 6 luce 6 sice 6 isle 4 leis 4 lies 4 lieu 4 lues 4 slue 4
3 Letter Words
cel 5 cis 5 cue 5 ecu 5 ice 5 sec 5 sic 5 els 3 lei 3 les 3 leu 3 lie 3 lis 3 sei 3 sel 3 sue 3 use 3
2 Letter Words
el 2 es 2 is 2 li 2 si 2 us 2
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