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  • n.水门, 水闸; v.冲洗
  • [英] v.冲洗 ( to wash with water)
  • [例] sluice a deck with hoses ( 用水龙带冲洗甲板)

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I. noun

  • Etymology: Middle English sluse, alteration of scluse, from Anglo-French escluse, from Late Latin exclusa, from Latin, feminine of exclusus, past participle of excludere to exclude
  • Date: 15th century
  • 1.
    • a. an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow
    • b. a body of water pent up behind a floodgate
  • 2. a dock gate ; floodgate
  • 3.
    • a. a stream flowing through a floodgate
    • b. a channel to drain or carry off surplus water
  • 4. a long inclined trough usually on the ground; especially such a contrivance paved usually with riffles to hold quicksilver for catching gold

II. verb (sluiced; sluicing)

  • Date: 1596
  • transitive verb
    • 1. to draw off by or through a sluice
    • 2.
      • a. to wash with or in water running through or from a sluice
      • b. to drench with a sudden flow ; flush
    • 3. to transport (as logs) in a sluice
  • intransitive verb
    • to pour as if from a sluice


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