sluice

Etymology
From, alteration of , from , from , from , form of (English ). Cognate to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2) A water gate or floodgate.
 * 3) Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
 * 4) The stream flowing through a floodgate.
 * 5)  A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
 * 6)  An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
 * 1) The stream flowing through a floodgate.
 * 2)  A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
 * 3)  An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: шлюз
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: propust, šlajsna
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kluzo, kluzopordo
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: gáttarstífla
 * Indonesian: sluis
 * Italian:, , canale di scarico, drenaggio, , , , , canale artificiale
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: засун
 * Middle English: scluse
 * Norwegian: sluse
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, deschizatura
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: устава, сплавница, брана, јаз
 * Roman:, , ,
 * Spanish: lock,  barrier, compuerta sluicegate
 * Ukrainian: шлюз
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: klut

Verb



 * 1)  To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
 * 2)  To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
 * 3)  To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
 * 4)  To wash (down or out).
 * 5)  To flow, pour.
 * 6)  To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See.
 * 1)  To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
 * 2)  To wash (down or out).
 * 3)  To flow, pour.
 * 4)  To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See.
 * 1)  To flow, pour.
 * 2)  To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See.
 * 1)  To flow, pour.
 * 2)  To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See.
 * 1)  To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See.
 * 1)  To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See.
 * 1)  To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See.
 * 1)  To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See.
 * 1)  To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See.

Derived terms

 * sluice one's bolt
 * sluice out

Translations

 * Finnish: juoksuttaa tulvaluukkujen kautta
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: tulvittaa
 * Italian:, , ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: horoi tuakirikiri
 * Spanish: lavar en agua corriente