sluicing

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

   sluicing rain

2. verb present participle and gerund of sluice
3. noun The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.
4. noun A kind of ellipsis, introduced by an interrogative, where (usually) everything except the interrogative is elided from the clause.

Similar words

sluiceway penstock flush sluice down sousing suffusion diluviation desludging illuviation watering

Often followed by

down the and of through is off over out

Word family

sluice sluiced sluices