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sluice

noun

1 sluice

Conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate.

synonyms: penstock, sluiceway.

Roget 350: conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau, aboiteau [Fr.], bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; ... show more

Roget 348: running water.    jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau [Fr.]; sluice.    water spout, water fall; ... show more

Roget 295: egress, exit, issue; emersion, emergence; outbreak, outburst; eruption, proruption; emanation; egression; evacuation; exudation, transudation; ... show more

Roget 233: limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term, bourn, verge, curbstone, but, pale, reservation; termination, terminus; ... show more

Dutch: sluis, sluisdeur, spui, spuisluis, uitwateringssluis, verlaat, zijl

verb

1 sluice

Pour as if from a sluice:
— An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef.

synonym: sluice down.

2 sluice

Irrigate with water from a sluice:
— Sluice the earth.

synonym: flush.

3 sluice

Transport in or send down a sluice.

4 sluice

Draw through a sluice.


Moby thesaurus: aboideau, air lock, aqueduct, arroyo, avenue, baptize, bath, bathe, bed, blow out, blowhole, canal, channel, chute, cloaca, cloaca maxima, creek bed, culvert, debouch, deluge ... show more.

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