sluice

About 0.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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. noun A water gate or floodgate.
3. noun Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
4. noun The stream flowing through a floodgate.
5. noun A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
6. noun An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
7. verb To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
8. verb To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice

Similar words

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Often followed by

gates gate boxes of box and is was to

Word family

sluiced sluices sluicing