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SLUICE, SLUSE, n. [L. claudo, clausi, clausus; Low L. exclusa. The most correct orthography is sluse.]
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.
Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon. Harte. This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of sensibility. I. Taylor. The stream flowing through a flood
gate.
A long box or trough
through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous
earth.
Sluice gate, the sliding gate of a sluice. To emit by, or as by,
flood gates.
[R.] Milton. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice]
as, to sluice meadows.
Howitt.
He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. De Quincey. 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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