- an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate ) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- the body of water held back or controlled by a sluice gate.
- any contrivance for regulating a flow from or into a receptacle.
- a channel, especially one carrying off surplus water; drain.
- a stream of surplus water.
- an artificial stream or channel of water for moving solid matter: a lumbering sluice.
- a long, sloping trough or the like, with grooves on the bottom, into which water is directed to separate gold from gravel or sand.
- to let out (water) by or as if by opening a sluice.
- to drain (a pond, lake, etc.) by or as if by opening a sluice.
- to open a sluice upon.
- to flush or cleanse with a rush of water: to sluice the decks of a boat.
- to wash in a sluice.
- to send (logs) down a sluiceway.
- to flow or pour through or as if through a sluice.
- a channel that carries a rapid current of water, esp one that has a sluicegate to control the flow
- the body of water controlled by a sluicegate
- See sluicegate
- an inclined trough for washing ore, esp one having riffles on the bottom to trap particles
- an artificial channel through which logs can be floated
- a brief wash in running water
- to draw out or drain (water, etc) from (a pond, etc) by means of a sluice
- to wash or irrigate with a stream of water
- to wash in a sluice
- to send (logs, etc) down a sluice
- (of water, etc) to run or flow from or as if from a sluice
- to provide with a sluice
