sluice

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Synonyms: slice, sluicy, sluce

Antonyms: slice, sluicy, sluce

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Noun

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. {{lb|en|mining}} A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing [[auriferous]] earth.
6. {{lb|en|linguistics}} An instance of [[wh-stranding]] [[ellipsis]], or [[sluicing]].

Verb

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

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