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Sluice (?), n. [OF. escluse, F. écluse, LL. exclusa, sclusa, from L. excludere, exclusum, to shut out: cf. D. sluis sluice, from the Old French. See Exclude.] 1. 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.
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2. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
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Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon. Harte.
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This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of sensibility. I. Taylor.
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3. The stream flowing through a flood gate.
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4. (Mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
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Sluice gate, the sliding gate of a sluice.
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Sluice, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sluiced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sluicing (?).] 1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates. [R.] Milton.
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2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt.
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He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. De Quincey.
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3. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
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