SLUICE


Meaning of SLUICE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ slu:s ]

( sluices, sluicing, sluiced)

1.

A sluice is a passage that carries a current of water and has a barrier, called a sluice gate, which can be opened and closed to control the flow of water.

N-COUNT

2.

If you sluice something or sluice it down or out, you wash it with a stream of water.

He sluiced the bath and filled it...

VERB : V n

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