sluice, sluiceway, penstock
(noun) conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
sluice, flush
(verb) irrigate with water from a sluice; “sluice the earth”
sluice
(verb) draw through a sluice; “sluice water”
sluice
(verb) transport in or send down a sluice; “sluice logs”
sluice, sluice down
(verb) pour as if from a sluice; “An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sluice (plural sluices)
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.
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
The stream flowing through a floodgate.
(mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
(linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
• dam
• lock
• weir
sluice (third-person singular simple present sluices, present participle sluicing, simple past and past participle sluiced)
(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.
(transitive) (more generally) To wash (down or out).
(intransitive) To flow, pour.
(linguistics) To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
• (washing in mining): pan
• lucies
Source: Wiktionary
Sluice, n. Etym: [OF. escluse, F. Ă©cluse, LL. exclusa, sclusa, from L. excludere, exclusum, to shut out: cf. D. sluis sluice, from the Old French. See Exclude.]
1. 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 of flood gate.
2. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon. Harte. This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of sensibility. I. Taylor.
3. The stream flowing through a flood gate.
4. (Mining)
Definition: A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth. Sluice gate, the sliding gate of a sluice.
Sluice, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sluiced; p. pr. & vb. n. Sluicing.]
1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates. [R.] Milton.
2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt. He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. De Quincey.
3. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
1 May 2024
(verb) be in a state of movement or action; “The room abounded with screaming children”; “The garden bristled with toddlers”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee press is 230 cm (7 ft 6 in) in height and 72 cm (2 ft 4 in) in diameter and was created by Salzillo Tea and Coffee (Spain) in Murcia, Spain, in February 2007. The cafetière consists of a stainless steel container, a filtering piston, and a superior lid.
