SLUICE
6 letters
8 Scrabble points
/sluːs/
Definition of SLUICE
noun
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An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
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A water gate or floodgate.
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Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
verb
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To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
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To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
"to sluice meadows"
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To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
Source: Wiktionary
Word Details
Letters
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Length
6 letters
Scrabble Score
8 points
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