sluice

1. (рідковживане, перехідне)To emit by, or as by, flood gates.

2. (перехідне)To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice

   pour as if from a sluice

3. (перехідне)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

   irrigate with water from a sluice

4. (ширше, перехідне)To wash (down or out).

   transport in or send down a sluice

5. (неперехідне)To flow, pour.

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

1. With a sluice you can control the water.

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2. The dam's sluice gate broke and the water flooded several nearby towns.

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3. A strong dike protected the city from the ocean, the sluices only admitting sufficient water for the needs of the town.

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4. Gradlon constantly bore round his neck a silver key which opened at the same time the vast sluices and the city gates.

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5. Many of the world's largest sluice gates are in the Netherlands.

   deViele der größten Schleusen der Welt finden sich in den Niederlanden.

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