sluice

sluice is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
3. noun. The stream flowing through a flood gate.
4. noun. A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
5. transitive verb. To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
6. transitive verb. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
7. transitive verb. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
8. noun. conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate

   Synonyms: penstock, sluiceway

9. verb. irrigate with water from a sluice

   "sluice the earth"

   Synonyms: flush

10. verb. draw through a sluice

    "sluice water"

11. verb. transport in or send down a sluice

    "sluice logs"

12. verb. pour as if from a sluice

    "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef"

Synonyms

penstock, sluiceway, flush

Common word forms

sluiced, sluicer, sluices, sluicing

Words from these letters

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