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Sluice

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. t.) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.

(2):

(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.

(3):

(n.) The stream flowing through a flood gate.

(4):

(n.) A long box or trough through which water flows, - used for washing auriferous earth.

(5):

(v. t.) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.

(6):

(n.) Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.

(7):

(v. t.) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Sluice'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/sluice.html. 1828.