sluices is a form of:
Sluice
noun
- 1.
- (the water controlled by this, an overflow channel, a darn and water gate, or the gate alone, for regulating the flow of water, valve or shutter for regulating flow) សន្ទះ ទំនប់ទឹក, ផ្លូវទឹកដែលមានសន្ទះបិទបើក
verb — past tense: sluiced ; past participle: sluiced ; present participle: sluicing ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (1. To flood or drench with or as if with a flow of released water. 2. To wash with water flowing in a sluice: sluicing sediment for gold. 3. To draw off or let out by a sluice: sluice floodwater. 4. To send [logs, for example] down a sluice) ដាក់សន្ទះទប់ទឹក
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.
- 2.
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
- 3.
- The stream flowing through a flood gate.
- 4.
- A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
verb — past tense: sluiced ; past participle: sluiced ; present participle: sluicing ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.