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What does sluice mean?

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## An artificial channel for conducting water, with a valve or gate to regulate the flow: sluices connecting a reservoir with irrigated fields.
1. A valve or gate used in such a channel; a floodgate: open sluices to flood a dry dock. Also called sluice gate.
A body of water impounded behind a floodgate.
A sluiceway.
A long inclined trough, as for carrying logs or separating gold ore.

v., sluiced, sluic·ing, sluic·es. v.tr.

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