Adjective: sluicing sloo-singVerb: sluice sloos
- Irrigate with water from a sluice
"sluice the earth";
- flush
- Draw through a sluice
"sluice water"
- Transport in or send down a sluice
"sluice logs"
- Pour as if from a sluice
"An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef";
- sluice down
- Wash or rinse with flowing water
"She sluiced the mud off her boots"
Type of: belt down [informal], bucket [Brit, informal], chuck [Brit, informal], chuck it down [Brit, informal], 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: Sluicing
Sluice, Pakistan