Sluice
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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)
[编辑] Webster Collegiate
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