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Noun sluice has 1 sense
- sluice, sluiceway, penstock - conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
--1 is a kind of conduit
--1 has parts:
Verb sluice has 4 senses
- sluice, sluice down - pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef"
--1 is one way to pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets
Sample sentence:
It was sluiceing all day long
- sluice, flush - irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"
--2 is one way to drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- sluice - transport in or send down a sluice; "sluice logs"
--3 is one way to transport
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- sluice - draw through a sluice; "sluice water"
--4 is one way to draw, take out
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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