Sluice

·vt To emit by, or as by, flood gates.

II. Sluice ·noun The stream flowing through a flood gate.

III. Sluice ·vt To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.

IV. Sluice ·noun Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.

V. Sluice ·noun A long box or trough through which water flows, — used for washing auriferous earth.

VI. Sluice ·vt To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.

VII. Sluice ·noun 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.