Sluice

Noun

 * 1) An artificial 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.
 * 2) Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
 * Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon. -Harte.
 * This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of sensibility. -I. Taylor.
 * 1) The stream flowing through a flood gate.
 * 2)  A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.

Verb

 * 1)  To emit by, or as by, flood gates. -Milton.
 * 2) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt.
 * He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. -De Quincey.
 * 1) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice earth or gold dust in mining.

Thesaurus
aboideau, air lock, aqueduct, arroyo, avenue, baptize, bath, bathe, bed, blow out, blowhole, canal, channel, chute, cloaca, cloaca maxima, creek bed, culvert, debouch, deluge, dip, dock gate, donga, door, douche, douse, drain, drain out, drench, drown, dry bed, duck, dunk, egress, empty, emunctory, escape, estuary, exhaust, exit, find vent, float, flood, flood-hatch, floodgate, flow, flow on, flow out, flume, flush, flush out, gargle, gate, gulch, gully, gullyhole, gush, gush out, gutter, head gate, headchute, headrace, holystone, inundate, irrigate, irrigation ditch, jet, kennel, lather, launder, lave, lock, lock gate, loophole, mop, mop up, nullah, opening, out, outcome, outfall, outflow, outgate, outgo, outlet, outpour, penstock, piscina, pore, port, pour, pour on, pour out, race, rain, rinse, rinse out, ritually immerse, river bed, riverway, roll, run out, runnel, sally port, scour, scrub, scrub up, scupper, sewer, shampoo, shower, sink, sluice gate, sluice out, soak, soap, sough, spew out, spillbox, spillway, spiracle, sponge, spout, spout out, spurt, stream, stream bed, streamway, submerge, sump, surge, swab, swamp, swash, swash channel, syringe, tailrace, tap, tide gate, toivel, tub, vent, ventage, venthole, vomit forth, vomitory, wadi, wash, wash out, wash up, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, waterworks, way out, weir, well, well out, whelm

Etymology
escluse, écluse,  exclusa, sclusa, from  excludere, exclusum, to shut out: confer  sluis sluice, from the Old French. See exclude.

Noun

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 * Polish: śluza
 * Portuguese: eclusa


 * Romanian: ecluza, deschizatura
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 * Serbian:, splavnica
 * Serbo-Croatian: ustava, brana,  jaz
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