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1. Pour as if from a sluice
   "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef"
   - sluice down
    
2. Irrigate with water from a sluice
   "sluice the earth"
   - flush
    
3. Transport in or send down a sluice
   "sluice logs"
    
4. Draw through a sluice
   "sluice water"

1. Conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
   - sluiceway, penstock

Derived forms: sluiced, sluices, sluicing

See also: sluicing

Type of: conduit, douse, dowse, draw, drench, pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, soak, sop, souse, stream, take out, transport

Encyclopedia: Sluice