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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Definitions sluice noun  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 of flood gate. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. Each of affluent fortune opened soon. -Harte. This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of sensibility. -I. Taylor. The stream flowing through a flood gate. (Mining): A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth. verb (sluic, ing) To emit by, or as by, flood gates. R. Milton. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt. He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. -De Quincey. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining. Etymology: escluse, écluse, exclusa, sclusa, from excludere, exclusum, to shut out: confer sluis sluice, from the Old French. See exclude.      Full Definition of sluice  Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish     Show 51015202550 results per page. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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