1. Conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
   "The sluice diverted excess water from the dam";
   - sluiceway, penstock

1. Irrigate with water from a sluice
   "sluice the earth";
   - flush
    
2. Draw through a sluice
   "sluice water"
    
3. Transport in or send down a sluice
   "sluice logs"
    
4. Pour as if from a sluice
   "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef";
   - sluice down
    
5. Wash or rinse with flowing water
   "She sluiced the mud off her boots"

Derived forms: sluicing, sluiced, sluices

See also: sluicing

Type of: belt down [informal], bucket [Brit, informal], chuck [Brit, informal], chuck it down [Brit, informal], conduit, douse, dowse, draw, drench, pelt, pelt down [informal], pour, rain buckets [informal], rain cats and dogs [informal], soak, sop, souse, take out, teem [informal], tip [Brit, informal], transport

Encyclopedia: Sluice, Pakistan