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Meanings of sluice in английском
Synonyms
Examples for "sluiceway"
Examples for "sluiceway"
1
They had entered the sluiceway at a place where there was scarcely any current.
2
As the boys passed under the sluiceway trestle Jack exclaimed:
3
The men hastily withdrew, first taking the precaution to remove the plank that covered the sluiceway.
4
It could never pass sideways between the two masses of rock and through the center sluiceway.
5
I funneled it through a small corridor I fought to maintain between sisters- ahumansluiceway of hurt.
1
But the guest grabbed the penstock while it was still vibrating.
2
I'm going to run a penstock up those falls, and put in a turbine, driving a high-tension alternator.
3
Everything ready for the test, Stevens took off his frayed and torn leather coveralls and moccasins and climbed nimbly up the penstock.
4
The next day I told Miss Penstock.
5
Penstock, a wooden tube for conducting water.
Usage of sluice in английском
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