Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word SLUICE

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Definitions of SLUICE

1. 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.
2. A water gate or floodgate.
3. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
4. The stream flowing through a floodgate.
5. (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
6. (linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
7. (transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
8. (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
9. (transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
10. (transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out).
11. (intransitive) To flow, pour.
12. (linguistics) To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.

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