Definizione monolingua

sluice

sluice (third-person singular simple present sluices, present participle sluicing, simple past and past participle sluiced)

1. (rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates. -Milton.
2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt.

   He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. -De Quincey.

3. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice earth or gold dust in mining.

sluice (plural sluices)

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.

   Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon. -Harte.

   This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of sensibility. -I. Taylor.

3. The stream flowing through a flood gate.
4. (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.

Definizione dizionario sluice

chiusa

	paratoia piana
	Vertical sliding gate or valve to regulate the flow of water in a channel or lock.

cateratta

emanare

inondare

lavare

paratoia

Altri significati:

(rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates. -Milton.

(mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.

Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.

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.

To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt.

To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice earth or gold dust in mining.

The stream flowing through a flood gate.