sluice
An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal…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.
» With a sluice you can control the water.
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6 sensesAn 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.
Schleuse, Schleusentor, Siel
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A water gate or floodgate.
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
The stream flowing through a floodgate.
A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
- conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
Examples
6 sentencesWith a sluice you can control the water.
The dam's sluice gate broke and the water flooded several nearby towns.
A strong dike protected the city from the ocean, the sluices only admitting sufficient water for the needs of the town.
Gradlon constantly bore round his neck a silver key which opened at the same time the vast sluices and the city gates.
Many of the world's largest sluice gates are in the Netherlands.
deViele der größten Schleusen der Welt finden sich in den Niederlanden. — Yorwba
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Origin
From Middle English sluse, alteration of scluse, from Anglo-Norman escluse (“sluice, floodFrom Middle English sluse, alteration of scluse, from Anglo-Norman escluse (“sluice, floodgate”), from Late Latin exclusa (“extrusion, gate”), from Latin exclūsus, form of exclūdō (“to shut out, to exclude”) (English exclude). Cognate to Dutch sluis.
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