The 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.

Synonyms

sluiceway , penstock , sluice down , flush

Rhymes

abstruse , abuse , asmus , boose , bruce , caboose , chartreuse , cheuse , coos , cruce , cuisse , damoose , deduce , derousse , deuce , deuss , diffuse , disabuse , disuse , doose , douce , druce , duce , ekeus , excuse , footloose , goose , hoose , induce , introduce , juice , labouisse , lajous , loose , luce , misuse , moose , mousse , noose , nous , obtuse , overproduce , prepuce , preuss , produce , profuse , recluse , reduce , reintroduce , reproduce , reuse , ruess , seduce , seuss , spruce , truce , tyus , use , vanhoose , yous , zeus