Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
- 3noun
The stream flowing through a flood gate.
- 4noun
A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
- 5transitive verb
To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- 6transitive verb
To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
- 7transitive verb
To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
- 8noun
conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
- 9verb
irrigate with water from a sluice
"sluice the earth"
Synonyms
- 10verb
draw through a sluice
"sluice water"
- 11verb
transport in or send down a sluice
"sluice logs"
- 12verb
pour as if from a sluice
"An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef"
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