English-Swedish translations for sluice

Definition of sluice

  • 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
  • Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply
  • The stream flowing through a floodgate
  • An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing
  • To emit by, or as by, flood gates
  • To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
  • To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice
  • To wash (''down'or ''out''
  • To flow, pour
  • To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See

Examples

  • to sluice meadows
  • to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining

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