Sluices is valid Scrabble Word

Is sluices a scrabble word?
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Collins Scrabble Words YES
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7 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for SLUICES in dictionary:

VERB:

SLUICE, 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

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

Words related to SLUICES

sluice8 sluiced10 sluicing11

Words that contain SLUICES

unsluices11

How to use SLUICES in a sentence

Their finer meaning has run out between the lines as though these spaces were sluices for the proper drainage of the page.
What was it? A dip in the hills where a little stream was caught up into sluices.
All the aqueducts, pipes, and sluices were dry, and the Thames water-tower was found to be out of order, and the pipes connected with it empty.
Sluices, docks and quays have been constructed in unlimited splendour and magnificence.
He was near one of the large sluices, and he now carefully examines it, and soon discovers a hole in the wood, through which the water was flowing.
These sluices are the greatest monument in Holland and, perhaps, the most admirable hydraulic work in Europe.
The rain ceasing for a short time, I went with Fritz and Jack to examine our embankment, and to open the sluices of the pond.
Here the Persians had erected a strong dam, with sluices, by means of which a portion of the water could occasionally be turned into the Roman cutting.
For the opening of the sluices a large sum was paid to the officer, which found its way into the coffers of the state.
In the absence of better lumber, for which they had no money, Van and his partners had torn down the shaft-house, made it into sluices, and turned in the water from the stream.

They had built a line of sluices, or troughs of considerable length, propped on stilts, or supports about knee high, along the old bed of the canyon.
One of the sluices, weakened by a leak that had undermined its pinning, fell from place, at the farther end of the line.
Gettysburg, Napoleon, and Dave were still in the water by the sluices.
These were dependent upon sluices to keep out the tide at high water.
A few days before the land was to be inspected, the tenants put bushes in the sluices, let the tide in and flooded the whole land.
The sluices were in full work under the watchful eye of Abe Dodds.
Then, too, it was set up in a position on the higher ground whence it overlooked the whole camp, with a full view of the sluices, and the operations going on about them.
Only the sluices stood up still and deserted, and the dumps of pay dirt.
When an old one falls the trunk and large limbs are sometimes used for sluices in tanks, for the heart wood is generally rotten and hollow, and it stands well under water.
His obsession with intellectual formulas was after all the result of a fear of opening the dark sluices through which surge the rhythms of life.
They cleaned up the first sluices every week, a little farther down every month, while the lower ones would only be cleaned up at the end of the season.
If one desires to be excited in this manner, one must go a little higher up to the older sluices, which deep and narrow have burst through the hard rock.
At that moment, the sluices of the cloud opened, and a torrent of rain mingled in the uproar, and added to the confusion.

Similar words containing SLUICE without suffix s

sluice8 sluiced10 unsluice10 sluiceway17 unsluiced12 unsluices11 sluicegate13 sluicelike16 sluiceways18 sluicegates14

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