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# sluice

«sluice» in Mova's school dictionary: **A gate or channel that controls how much water flows in a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a sluice, sluices); verb (sluice, sluices, sluiced, sluicing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A gate or channel that controls how much water flows in a river, canal or mill stream (also called a sluice gate). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluice/#m1)

2) (verb) To wash something with lots of water: sluice down the yard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluice/#m2)

3) (verb) Of water: to pour or rush out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluice/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Geography and science: sluices control floods and water levels on rivers and canals, and turn mill wheels. In The Wind in the Willows the river runs past weirs, mills and locks. Everyday: farmers sluice out a cowshed; rain sluices down the street.

### examples

- The farmer opened the sluice to let water into the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluice/#x1)
- Water rushed through the sluice gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluice/#x2)
- They sluiced down the muddy yard with a hose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluice/#x3)
- Rain sluiced down the windows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluice/#x4)
- The miller closed the sluice to stop the wheel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluice/#x5)
- Engineers built sluices to stop the town flooding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluice/#x6)
- Rikki-tikki tingled all over with rage and hatred at this, and then Nag’s head came through the sluice, and his five feet of cold body followed it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluice/#x7)

### note

Say «sloos». Silent ui sound: s-l-oo-s. Safety: sluices and weirs have very strong currents — never swim near them.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sluice» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluice/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.