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Found 2 hits - Term: sluicing, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[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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