Sluice
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.
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
The stream flowing through a flood gate.
A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
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Sluice Translations
sluice in Hungarian is zsilip
sluice in Italian is cateratta, emanare
sluice in Spanish is acequia, compuerta
sluice in Swedish is sluss
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