Synonyms for sluice
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : sloos |
| Phonetic Transcription : slus |
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Définition of sluice
Origin :- c.1400, earlier scluse (mid-14c.), a shortening of Old French escluse "sluice, floodgate" (Modern French écluse), from Late Latin exclusa "barrier to shut out water" (in aqua exclusa "water shut out," i.e. separated from the river), from fem. singular of Latin exclusus, past participle of excludere "to shut out" (see exclude).
- noun stream
- The Mud-pups didn't understand how to sluice them down properly after operations.
- Extract from : « The Native Soil » by Alan Edward Nourse
- It was not far from the head of the sluice, and, therefore, a most critical position.
- Extract from : « Lines in Pleasant Places » by William Senior
- Next, a fresh attempt was made to blow up the sluice, but failed.
- Extract from : « Dick o' the Fens » by George Manville Fenn
- Why, she spoiled hers, showing us how to come through that sluice, didn't she?
- Extract from : « The Rival Campers Ashore » by Ruel Perley Smith
- The range of smoky mills driven by a sluice from the fall had better be away.
- Extract from : « Northern Travel » by Bayard Taylor
- The herring run this sluice and jump the gate with perfect ease.
- Extract from : « Wild Life Near Home » by Dallas Lore Sharp
- He could hear nothing of it for the boiling at the gates of the sluice.
- Extract from : « Winter » by Dallas Lore Sharp
- And on reaching the pond, they opened the sluice, and whish!
- Extract from : « In the Roar of the Sea » by Sabine Baring-Gould
- The sluice lumber was finished on the edges and the other wasnt.
- Extract from : « Then and Now » by Robert Vaughn
- We got $140 a thousand for sluice lumber, and $125 for common lumber.
- Extract from : « Then and Now » by Robert Vaughn
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