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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. |
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Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows;
a source of supply. |
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The stream flowing through a flood gate. |
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A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for
washing auriferous earth. |
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To emit by, or as by, flood gates. |
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To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice
meadows. |
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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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