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Definition sluice

Etymology

From Middle English sluse, alteration of scluse, from Anglo-Norman escluse (“sluice, floodgate”), from Late Latin exclusa (“extrusion, gate”), from Latin excl?sus, form of excl?d? (“I shut out, I exclude”) (English exclude). Cognate to Dutch sluis.

Noun

sluice (plural sluices)

1. An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
2. A water gate or floodgate.
3. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
4. The stream flowing through a floodgate.
5. (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
6. (linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.

Verb

sluice (third-person singular simple present sluices, present participle sluicing, simple past and past participle sluiced)

1. (transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
2. (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
3. (transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
4. (transitive) (more generally) To wash (down or out).
5. (intransitive) To flow, pour.
6. (linguistics) To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.

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