I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
gate
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It is only responsible for the reservoir itself and for the sluice gates , says Maxwell.
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The defeat opened the sluice gates and venom flowed through in raging torrents.
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The sluice gates are lifted by chains on old fashioned rollers.
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Mills were often built on an estuary where the water could be trapped upstream at high tide by sluice gates .
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New sluice gates hold out the sea water at high tides.
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Water was conducted into the meadow via artificially constructed channels and elaborate sluice gates and allowed to flow across the grass.
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This picturesque beauty however, was terminated by the walls and sluice gates of the old mill.
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As the tide rose, water was forced back up the Westbury Brook and held back by the sluice gates .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A filled-in marsh is a sluice for sediment.
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At last the sluice gates were lowered.
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It is only responsible for the reservoir itself and for the sluice gates, says Maxwell.
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Its sluices could be used to flood the whole area if it became infested with invading forces.
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Just opposite the point where the brook which runs past Lawrence's old home joins the Erewash itself stands a mill sluice .
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The sluice gates are lifted by chains on old fashioned rollers.
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The defeat opened the sluice gates and venom flowed through in raging torrents.
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The moment the prison doors closed behind Gandhi the sluice gates of violence opened.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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An orderly was sluicing down the metal table and the floor.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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City sweepers sluice down Telegraph Street every morning.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An orderly was sluicing down the metal table and the floor.
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Everything was hygienically sluiced away by the ocean.
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He smiled without humour when Frankie sucked at the soap-filled cloth in order to sluice the taste of rancid beck-water from his mouth.
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I follow her in, sluice around, dry up, come and fetch her.
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The water went sluicing out of the house into the garden.
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Then the inner cavities were sluiced out with various aromatic and disinfecting fluids prior to sewing up.
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Twenty-Five A sheen of seawater sluiced the cat's back.