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Määritelmät

Substantiivit

1. An artificial 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.
2. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
3. The stream flowing through a flood gate.
4. (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
5. (linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.

Verbit

1. (rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
3. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
4. To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.