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Adjective: sluicing  sloo-sing
  1. Pouring from or as if from a sluice
    "the sluicing rain"
Verb: sluice  sloos
  1. Pour as if from a sluice
    "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef"; "An aggressive tide sluiced down 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"

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

Encyclopedia: Sluice

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