Word Meaning

Meaning of sluice

- 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.
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
- The stream flowing through a flood gate.
- A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
- To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
- To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.

Crossword clue for sluice

- Clue is drifting into flood channel
- Flood channel
- Flow gate
- Flush with water
- Perplexing clue is found in a sewer
- Watergate
- Weir (gates)