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Significados de sluice en inglés

portugués
duto
catalán
canal
español
tubería forzada

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

tubería forzada
catalán
regar
español
regar

Irrigate with water from a sluice.

regar

Pour as if from a sluice.

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Examples for "sluice down"
Examples for "sluice down"
1
He pushed the sluice down a little, and waited a moment.
Gutta-Percha Willie / The Working Genius
2
Form a bucket brigade to sluice down any nearby buildings!
World of warcraft: the shattering: prelude to cataclysm
3
One day of fighting, and one to sluice down the abattoir floor, as it were.
Tuck
4
The orchard nectar began to sluice down his throat.
Pipefuls
5
The rain continued to sluice down through the trees.
Sacrifice
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.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Rut...
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portugués
dutoductocanal
catalán
canalregar
Sluice a través del tiempo
Sluice por variante geográfica
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