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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: sluicing, sluiced, sluices

See also: sluicing

Type of: bucket [Brit], chuck [Brit], chuck it down [Brit], conduit, douse, dowse, draw, drench, pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, soak, sop, souse, stream, take out, teem, tip [Brit], transport

Encyclopedia: Sluice Sluice, Pakistan