Conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate.
Irrigate with water from a sluice.
Pour as if from a sluice.
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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