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Significados de sluice en inglés

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

        tubería forzada
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        Irrigate with water from a sluice.

              regar

              Pour as if from a sluice.

                    Uso de sluice en inglés
                    1
                    I worked in the claim while my partner attended to the sluice-box.
                    Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer
                    2
                    A sluice is basically a long rectangular box open at both ends.
                    Empty mile
                    3
                    A little before sundown he ordered the sluice-gates of the dam opened.
                    The Riverman
                    4
                    Already men with pike-poles were guiding the sullen timbers toward the sluice-way.
                    The Riverman
                    5
                    He cleaned up the sluice-boxes late last fall after the first freeze.
                    The Lady Doc
                    6
                    Probably, he thought, the ditch had been started as an irrigation sluice.
                    Lost in translation
                    7
                    The logs, floating down the pond, were thus concentrated toward the sluice.
                    The Riverman
                    8
                    Once he even managed to sluice some minnows up on dry land.
                    Lonesome dove
                    9
                    Billy Camp began to worry about shooting the wanigan through the sluice-way.
                    The Blazed Trail
                    10
                    After some time Orde called his crew off and opened the sluice-gates.
                    The Riverman
                    11
                    Here the unpierceable walls were washed every morning by an automatic sluice.
                    The Ball and the Cross
                    12
                    Our surplus water flows indirectly into the river Nene from our sluice.
                    Essays in Natural History and Agriculture
                    13
                    But the principal domain of the junior probationers was the sluice room.
                    Atonement
                    14
                    Journeyman suggested a sluice, and they inquired their way to the lavatories.
                    Esther Waters
                    15
                    He tipped the slimy residue into a sluice hammered into the floor.
                    Perdido Street Station
                    16
                    This one is like a little key which opens a great sluice.
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                    dutoductocanal
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                    canalregar
                    Sluice a través del tiempo
                    Sluice por variante geográfica
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