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Meanings of sluice in inglés
Synonyms
Examples for "sluice down"
Examples for "sluice down"
1
He pushed the sluice down a little, and waited a moment.
2
Form a bucket brigade to sluice down any nearby buildings!
3
One day of fighting, and one to sluice down the abattoir floor, as it were.
4
The orchard nectar began to sluice down his throat.
5
The rain continued to sluice down through the trees.
Usage of sluice in inglés
1
I worked in the claim while my partner attended to the sluice-box.
2
A sluice is basically a long rectangular box open at both ends.
3
A little before sundown he ordered the sluice-gates of the dam opened.
4
Already men with pike-poles were guiding the sullen timbers toward the sluice-way.
5
He cleaned up the sluice-boxes late last fall after the first freeze.
6
Probably, he thought, the ditch had been started as an irrigation sluice.
7
The logs, floating down the pond, were thus concentrated toward the sluice.
8
Once he even managed to sluice some minnows up on dry land.
9
Billy Camp began to worry about shooting the wanigan through the sluice-way.
10
After some time Orde called his crew off and opened the sluice-gates.
11
Here the unpierceable walls were washed every morning by an automatic sluice.
12
Our surplus water flows indirectly into the river Nene from our sluice.
13
But the principal domain of the junior probationers was the sluice room.
14
Journeyman suggested a sluice, and they inquired their way to the lavatories.
15
He tipped the slimy residue into a sluice hammered into the floor.
16
This one is like a little key which opens a great sluice.
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Sluice through the time
Sluice across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common