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- Sluice - n. - An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.
- Sluice - n. - Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
- Sluice - n. - The stream flowing through a flood gate.
- Sluice - n. - A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
- Sluice - v. t. - To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- Sluice - v. t. - To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
- Sluice - v. t. - To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
- Sluiced - imp. & p. p. - of Sluice
- Sluiceway - n. - An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery.
- Batardeau - n. - A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall.
- Clough - n. - A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
- Unsluice - v. t. - To sluice; to open the sluice or sluices of; to let flow; to discharge.
- Go-out - n. - A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out.
- Hatch - n. - A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
- Sluice - v. t. - To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
- Sasse - n. - A sluice or lock, as in a river, to make it more navigable.
- Riffle - n. - A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed; also, one of the cleats, grooves, or steps in such a trough. Also called ripple.
- Trunk - n. - A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
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- H699 אֲרֻבָּה - 699 אֲרֻבָּה - אֲרֻבָּה - - ʼărubbâh - ar-oob-baw' - feminine participle passive of אָרַב (as if for lurking); a lattice; (by implication) a window, dovecot (because of the pigeon-holes), chimney (with its apertures for smoke), sluice (with openings for water); chimney, window. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H7938 שֶׂכֶר - 7938 שֶׂכֶר - שֶׂכֶר - - seker - seh'-ker - from שָׂכַר; wages; reward, sluices. - Noun Masculine - heb
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