Sluice is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SLUICE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to wash with a sudden flow of water, also SLUSE
• wash or rinse freely with a stream or shower of water
• (of water) pour or flow freely
• To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
• To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
• To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
• pour as if from a sluice
• irrigate with water from a sluice
• transport in or send down a sluice
• draw through a sluice
• drain water by means of a sluice
NOUN:
• a sliding gate or other device for controlling the flow of water, especially one in a lock gate
• an artificial water channel for carrying off overflow or surplus water.
• (in gold mining) a channel or trough constructed with grooves into which a current of water is directed in order to separate gold from the ore containing it.
• an act of rinsing or showering with water
• channel that carries a rapid current of water
• 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 or flood gate.
• Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
• The stream flowing through a flood gate.
• A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
• conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate

Words related to SLUICE

sluiced10 sluicelike16 sluices9 sluiceway17 sluicier10 sluiciest11 sluicing11 sluicy11 sluse5 sluses6

Words that contain SLUICE

sluiced10 sluices9 unsluice10 sluiceway17 unsluiced12 unsluices11 sluicegate13 sluicelike16 sluiceways18 sluicegates14

How to use SLUICE in a sentence

• He ran at once and opened the sluice in the well, and away the stream gurgled underground.
• The moment he saw it beginning to get the better of him, he ran to the sluice and banished it to the regions below.
• Through a hole in it, just large enough, came the handle of the sluice.
• At length Willie took his stand at the sluice, and told Sandy to scramble up to the end of the lead pipe, and shout when the water began to pour into the trough.
• His object was to find how far the sluice required to be shut down in order to send up just as much water as the pipe could deliver.
• The Boy would limp after the Colonel down to the sluice, and sit on a dump heap with Nig.
• The Colonel liked to have him down there at the sluice, and when he thought about it, the Boy marvelled at the hours he spent looking on while others worked.
• The gang watched the Boy dodge under the sluice and hobble hurriedly over the chaos of stones towards the owner.
• Then I came out on a sort of causeway floored with boards which covered a marshy sluice, and there I made great strides on him.
• Hesitating, they turned to the river trail, leaving the ten still working at the sluice.
• Down by the sluice a dozen lanterns flickered and blinked yellow against the blue-blackness of the night.
• The logs, floating down the pond, were thus concentrated toward the sluice.
• Northward to Hartley and Seaton Sluice the cliffs are very fine.
• Seaton Sluice belongs to the ancient family of the Delavals, whose house, Delaval Hall, may be seen not far away, peeping from amongst the trees which surround it.
• On that date the standard was raised, and, as though a sluice had been dropped across a mill dam, the stream stopped suddenly and completely.
• They meant to give him a choice of deaths, death at the door by flame and lead or death in the sluice by suffocation.
• At first he was inclined thoroughly to sluice himself inwardly.
• But the Kispiox stayed them, a sluice box cut through solid stone, in which the waters raged with a deafening roar.
• The cold sluice he had just indulged in seemed to have entirely restored his equanimity.
• Every block of gold-carrying turf, every puddling-box, sluice and tool had been carried out to sea.
• He finished his strictly utilitarian household labor and went off up the flat to the sluice boxes.
• An axe, a big jack-knife, a hammer and some nails left over from building their sluice boxes, these were the tools.
• We split the longer cuts into two inch plank for sluice boxes, and made a small reservoir, so that we succeeded in working the ground.
• We dug at first sluices in the rock to carry off the mud and water, and after it had flowed in these a little way a sluice box was put in to pass it through.
• The most gold would be left in the first sluice boxes but some would go on down to the very last, where the water and dirt was run off into the river.
• We landed at the first sluice, and stood as it were in a garden laid out in the English style.
• The sluice gates were opened with a ponderous and crashing sound, like that related of the copper gates of the secret council in Germany.
• The water dripped over the wheel, and long green beard trailed from its chin down the sluice.
• A few score of Highlanders were now fingering the key with which it seemed possible to unlock the sluice gates and allow the flood waters of war to overwhelm the foe.
• By the expenditure of his last bit of reserve strength he could make the sluice.
• Straight for the opening of the sluice! His last strokes were prodigious.
• At last I went down to the shore of the lake, rather to the shore of the sluice through which the Chicago River widened into the lake in a southerly direction.

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