sluice

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
2. isim A water gate or floodgate.
3. isim Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.

   “At leaſt, I'm ſure I can fiſh it out of her. She's the very Sluce to her Lady's Secrets;—'Tis but ſetting her Mill agoing, and I can drein her of 'em all.”

4. isim The stream flowing through a floodgate.
5. isim A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
6. isim An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
7. fiil To emit by, or as by, flood gates.

   “Nigh on the plain, in many cells prepared, / That underneath had veins of liquid fire / Sluiced from the lake, a second multitude / With wondrous art founded the massy ore, / Severing each kind, and scummed the bullion-dross.”

8. fiil To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice

   “Nine - mile Creek has been dug out again and again , and has been sluiced three times”

9. fiil To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.

   “to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining”

10. fiil To wash (down or out).

    “[…] he did plot the Duke of Gloucester's death, / Suggest his soon-believing adversaries, / And consequently, like a traitor coward, / Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood”

11. fiil To flow, pour.

    “In the trough behind the white wave / Helen shook her dark head, the water sluiced from her shoulders / And rose-tipped breasts.”

12. fiil To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.