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Adjective: sluicing  sloo-sing
  1. Pouring from or as if from a sluice
    "the sluicing rain"
Verb: sluice  sloos
  1. Pour as if from a sluice
    "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef";
    - sluice down
     
  2. Irrigate with water from a sluice
    "sluice the earth";
    - flush
     
  3. Transport in or send down a sluice
    "sluice logs"
     
  4. Draw through a sluice
    "sluice water"

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