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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sluice \sluice\, v. t. imp. p. p. sluiced; p. pr. vb. n.
sluicing.
1. to emit by, or as by, flood gates. r. --milton.
1913 webster
2. to wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice
meadows. --howitt.
1913 webster
he dried his neck and face, which he had been
sluicing with cold water. --de quincey.
1913 webster
3. to wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a
sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
1913 webster
see also:
sluiced sluicing
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
sluicing
adj : pouring from or as if from a sluice; "the sluicing rain"
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