Sluice

Definition: Sluice

Sluice

Noun

1. Conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate.

Verb

1. Pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef.".

2. Irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth".

3. Flow or pour from or as if from a sluice.

4. Transport in or send down a sluice, as of logs.

5. Draw through a sluice, as of water.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sluice" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Mining

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Synonyms: Sluice

Conduit

Noun: conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge; vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe. (tube); funnel; tunnel. (passage); water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks.

Egress

Outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate; pore; vomitory, outgate, sally port; way out; mouth, door; (opening); path; (way); conduit; airpipe.

Limit

Ircumvallation; pillars of Hercules; Rubicon, turning point; ne plus ultra; sluice, floodgate.

River

Jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau; sluice.

Crosswords: Sluice

Through the Sluice Gates (1913)

Sluice (1978)

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Books

• Elutriator design manual for coarse heavy mineral recovery from sluice box concentrate (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Black and white photo of two women posing next to a gold sluice box. Credit: Unknown.

Old sluice mill, Albemarle County, Va. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gold mining sluice, Two Bit Creek, South Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gold miner at work in sluice box, Two Bit Creek, South Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Prospector working the sluice box. Pinos Altos, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

Auxiliary sluice gates which have never been used. Roosevelt Dam, Arizona. Credit: Library of Congress.

Spring pulpwood drive on Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. Woodsmen with pikes feeding logs into the sluice at the power dam on the Kennebago River. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The sluice of tears once opened, the despairing man writhed

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Expressions using "sluice": sluice down ♦ sluice gate ♦ sluice out ♦ sluice valve ♦ sluice way. Additional references.

Beginning with "sluice": sluice-box, sluice-gates, sluice-room.

Albanian

shluzë (canal lock, floodgates, gate, water gate), pritë (ambuscade, ambush, barrage, blind, boom, wait), pendë (barrage, dam, dike, embankment, feather, fin, mole, pinion, plumage, plume, quill, seawall, span, Weir, yoke), pajis me shluze, lëshoj (cede, concede, dart, depasture, discharge, ease, effuse, emit, exhale, fetch, fire, flop, get off, give, give off, give out, give rise to, heave, heave a sigh, issue, let, let fall, let go, let loose, let off, pay, project, radiate, relieve, send, set on, shed, shoot, throw down, touch off, trip, unbrace, unbridle, uncork, uncouple, unleash, unmuzzle, unrein, untuck, utter), kanal artificial, derdhet (Debouch, flood, flow, flow in to, flow into, meet, overflow, pour, rain, regorge, rill, run out, run over, spill, stream). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محور ينظم جريان المياه, ‏هويس القناة, ‏قناة مياه (pipe), ‏قناة لجر المياه, ‏غمر (deluge, douse, dunk, engulf, float, flood, flow, gulf, immerse, immersion, inundate, inundation, load, overflow, overwhelm, souse, submerge, suffuse, swamp, wash), ‏غسل بالمياه, ‏حجز المياه, ‏حجز الماء, ‏سد ذو بوابة, ‏صرف المياه, ‏الصمام (tube, valve), ‏روى (irrigate, narrate, quench, recite, recount, relate, report, retail, retrace, saturate, slake, story, tell, water), ‏بوابة للتحكم بتدفق المياه. (various references)

Bulgarian 

водозащитна преграда, изтичам (determine, escape, expire, finish, issue, leak, outflow, run, run off, run out, wear through), преливник (lasher, overfall, overflow, sink, spillway), промивам (bathe, irrigate, lave, pan, scour, wash), промивам в корито, промивам в улей, промиване (ablution, douche, flush, lavement), бент (barrage, dam, dike), заливам (flash, flood, flush, inundate, lick, overflow, overrun, perfuse, splash, swamp, whelm), обливам (deluge, lave, perfuse, pour over, slush), изплакване (rinse, swill), отвеждам (carry, carry off, derive, get away, lead, lead off, offset, pipe, take, take off, walk away), улей за промиване на руда, врата на док, врата на шлюз (lock gate, wicket), корито за промиване на злато (rocker), корито за промиване на руда (hutch), шлюз (coffer, cofferdam, floodgate, gate, hatch, lock, penstock), тека (course, devolve, effuse, flow, flux, lapse, leak, roll, roll by, run, run on, set), тръбен водоизпускател, яз (dike, Weir), улей за промиване на злато, отварям шлюз. (various references)

Chinese 

灉 (name of a river), 水闸 (floodgate). (various references)

Czech

stavidlo (floodgate, water gate), splav, vrata splavu (sluice gate), opatřit stavidlem, řinout se (gush out, roll, stream). (various references)

Danish

stigbord (discharge sluice, penstock, slide gate, sluice gate, tide lock), skyllesluse, toemmerrende (flume, wet chute, wet slide), lugeaabning (hatch, hatchway), gennemloeb (culvert, opening, passage), digesluse (discharge sluice, tide lock). (various references)

Dutch

spuisluis, spui (lock), sluis (lock), schutsluis (lock), schuif (bolt, valve), sassluis (lock), sas (lock), zijl,verlaat (discharge sluice, tide lock), rechthoekige afvoer. (various references)

Esperanto

kluzo (lock). (various references)

Faeroese

slúsa (lock). (various references)

Farsi 

سنگ شوءی کردن(مع.), سد (Barrier, Dam, Dike, Pile, Stank, Stoppage), خیس کردن (Douse, Drown, Ret, Swill), انبار (Arsenal, Cellar, Depository, Depot, Entrepot, Garner, Godown, Lodge, Repertory, Repository, Store, Tender, Thesaurus), ازبندیادریچه جاری شدن , ابگیر (Basin, Pool), دریچه تخلیه , بندگذاشتن , بندسیل گیر. (various references)

Finnish

sulku (barricade, block, dam, flood-gate, lock, obstruction). (various references)

French

écluse. (various references)

German

Schleuse (floodgate, lock, watergate), siel (sewer). (various references)

Greek 

ρεύμα ύδατοσ, παλιρροϊκή κλεισιάς (discharge sluice, tide lock), υδροφράχτησ (dam, lock, sluice valve), υδροολισθωτήρ (flume, wet chute, wet slide), φράγμα ύδατοσ, εκρέω (discharge, jet, outflow, outpour), εκπλύνω (flush), εκχύνομαι (gush, outpour), αύλαξ (chute), θυρόφραγμα (gate, lock). (various references)

Hebrew 

מגוף (stopper), לשטוף במים (flush), להציף (deluge, flood, glut, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, swamp), תעלת מים, תריס (apron, blind, gate, shutter, thyroid), סכר (barrage, dam, floodgate, lock, sluice gate). (various references)

Hungarian

zsilip (flood gate, penstock, sluice gate, sluice valve). (various references)

Indonesian

mengalirkan (aim, channel, drain, shed, siphon). (various references)

Italian

opera di scarico (overfall, overflow, spillway, tailrace), luce di cacciata, giunto di dilatazione, emanare (emanate, exhale, issue, outpouring, radiate, send out), condotta (behavior, behaviour, conduct, deportment, direction, ongoings), chiusa (closing, closure, end, lock, paddle, penstock, Weir), cateratta (cataract, watergate), canale di fluitazione (flume, wet chute, wet slide). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

井堰 (dam), 堰 (dam). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せき (barrier, cough, dam, gate, house, hut, inn, mansion, one's domicile, one's family register, product, seat), いせき (changing household registry, dam, gastrolith, glorious achievements, historic ruins, register of physicians, remaining works, results of a man's labor, ruins, transfer). (various references)

Korean 

수문. (various references)

Manx

lock (lock). (various references)

Pig Latin

uiceslay.(various references)

Portuguese

represa (catchment, clow, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, lock-gate, mill-pond, penstock, reservoir, sluicegate, weir), escorregadouro hidráulico (flume, wet chute, wet slide), eclusa, dique (bank, basin, bund, dam, dyke, embankment, jetty, lock, mole, mound), comporta de descarga (discharge sluice, tide lock), comporta (bibb, clow, floodgate, hatch, lock, lock-gate, penstock, sluicegate, stopper, tide-gate, water-gate), canal de escoamento rápido, canal artificial, calha (channel, chute, eaves, flume, furrow, gutter, hollow, lade, race, runway, spout, wrinkle), água de açude. (various references)

Romanian

stãvilire, stãvilar (dam, flood gate, lock, penstock, pier, Weir), scoc (gutter, trough), zãgãzuire, pune stãvilar, iriga (irrigate, water), ecluzare (lockage), ecluzã (flood gate, lock, sluice gate). (various references)

Russian 

спускать воду (flush the toilet), шлюзовать шлюз, шлюз (bridge, floodgate, gate, gateway, lock, penstock), облить (douche, douse), мыть (lave, scrub 2, wash), промывка (ablution, wash, washing). (various references)

Scottish

bual-chòmhla. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ustavljena voda, ustava (floodgate, lock, weir), potopiti (dip, immerse, sink, soak, submerge, submerse), odvod (drain, drain away, let off), navodniti (irrigate, water). (various references)

Spanish

esclusa (floodgate, lock), compuerta (floodgate, gate, penstock, sluicegate, watergate). (various references)

Swedish

sluss (floodgate, lock). (various references)

Thai

ไหลผ่าน, ช่องระบายน้ำ, ออกจากประตูน้ำ, ล้างออกด้วยน้ำ, ปล่อยออกจากประตูน้ำ. (various references)

Turkish

su akışını düzenleyen araç, savak (penstock, sluiceway), yıkamak (bath, bathe, clean down, launder, lave, lustrate, scrub, splash, wash), yıkama suyu kanalı, bol suyla yıkamak (scour, swill, swill out), bentlere kapak takmak, bent kapağı (floodgate, sluice gate), akmak (bleed, course, discharge, drain, drain away, drain off, fall into, flow, issue, leak, pour, pour itself, pour out, run, run down, run out, splutter, stream, well forth, well out, well up), çok su dökmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

текти через шлюз, шлюз (canal lock, coffer, floodgate, lock, overflow-dike, penstock), канал (aqueduct, artery, canal, channel, deferent, ditch, feeder, watercourse), випускати струменем (jet), будувати шлюзи, промивати (backwash, bathe, clean, douche, scour, wash), промивання (ablution, abstersion, douche, washing, washout), политися. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự giội ào, sự cọ rửa, cửa cống (outfall, sluice-gate, water-gate). (various references)

cataracta. (various references)

exclusa. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sluice": sluiced, sluices, sluiceway, sluiceways. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sluice" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sleece, sleuice, slicen, slouce, sluicer, souie, squice, suic, sulice. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ceils, clues, ileus, lieus, luces, slice, sulci.

-2 letters: ceil, cels, clue, cues, ecus, ices, isle, leis, lice, lies, lieu, luce, lues, sice, slue.

-3 letters: cel, cis, cue, ecu, els, ice, lei, leu, lie, lis, sec, sei, sel, sic, sue, use.

-4 letters: el, es, is, li, si, us.

+1 letter: cliques, culices, cullies, leucins, luckies, luetics, sluiced, sluices, spicule.

+2 letters: auricles, ciboules, clumsier, clupeids, coliseum, coulises, coulisse, cubicles, cuittles, cullises, curliest, cuticles, cutlines, fluerics, funicles, includes, leucines, leucites, linecuts, lucifers, luckiest, lunacies, musicale, nucleins, nuclides, scumlike, scurrile, spiculae, spicules, suchlike, surplice, tunicles, unsliced, utricles, vesicula.

+3 letters: blueticks, calumnies, capsulize, caulicles, cliquiest, cloudiest, clubbiest, clumpiest, clumsiest, clunkiest, clupeoids, coliseums, collusive, coquilles, coulisses, crucibles, cruelties, cuddliest, culicines, cultigens, culverins, curlicues, curliness, curricles, cursively, cutleries, delicious, dulcifies, dulcimers, dulcineas, exclusion, exclusive, faculties, fascicule, fluencies, glucoside, inclosure, inclusive, insculped, juiceless, lemniscus, leucemias, leukemics, licensure, lichenous, lodicules, lucencies, lucidness, luckiness, luminesce, luteciums, masculine, miniscule, minuscule, mucilages, musicales, nucleoids, occlusive, peculiars, pluckiest, poultices, publicise, pulicides, reclusion, reclusive, republics, reticules, ridicules, secluding, seclusion, seclusive, siliceous, siliculae, simulacre, slouchier, sluiceway, supercoil, surcingle, surplices, unicycles, vesiculae, vesicular, vulcanise.