Definitions for the word, sluice

(n.) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.

(n.) The stream flowing through a flood gate.

(v. t.) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.

(v. t.) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.

(v. t.) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.


45 words found in the Scrabble word, sluice



Scrabble letter values
A is 1 points
B is 3 points
C is 3 points
D is 2 points
E is 1 points
F is 4 points
G is 2 points
H is 4 points
I is 1 points
J is 8 points
K is 5 points
L is 1 points
M is 3 points
N is 1 points
O is 1 points
P is 3 points
Q is 10 points
R is 1 points
S is 1 points
T is 1 points
U is 1 points
V is 4 points
W is 4 points
X is 8 points
Y is 4 points
Z is 10 points



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