Defenition of the word sluice
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Defenition of the word sluice
- Vertical sliding gate or valve to regulate the flow of water in a channel or lock.
- draw through a sluice, as of water
- transport in or send down a sluice, as of logs
- flow or pour from or as if from a sluice
- irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"
- carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
- pour as if from a sluice
- conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
- draw through a sluice; "sluice water"
- transport in or send down a sluice; "sluice logs"
- pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef"
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- draw through a sluice
- transport in or send down a sluice
Synonyms for the word sluice
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- clean
- flush
- hose
- penstock
- rinse
- sluice down
- sluiceway
- wash
Similar words in the sluice
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- sluice
- sluice's
- sluiced
- sluices
Meronymys for the word sluice
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- floodgate
- head gate
- penstock
- sluice valve
- sluicegate
- water gate
Hypernyms for the word sluice
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- channel
- conduit
- douse
- dowse
- draw
- drench
- flow
- pelt
- pour
- rain buckets
- rain cats and dogs
- soak
- sop
- souse
- stream
- take out
- transport
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