sluices in English

noun
1
a sliding gate or other device for controlling the flow of water, especially one in a lock gate.
The sluice gate regulates the volume of water that strikes the wheel, and has to be judged with some care to prevent the mill stones from spinning too fast and vibrating too much.
2
an act of rinsing or showering with water.
a sluice with cold water
verb
1
wash or rinse freely with a stream or shower of water.
she sluiced her face in cold water
synonyms:wash (down)rinsecleancleanse
noun
verb

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "sluices" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "sluices", or refer to the context using the word "sluices" in the English Dictionary.

1. Leakage at the lock gates and sluices.

2. Algae behind those gates comes pouring through the sluices down to the spillway.

3. We opened the sluices and the upstream water of the river poured into the lock.

4. Its sluices could be used to flood the whole area if it became infested with invading forces.

5. Hence, they started off digging and panning for surface gold, rinsing their tailings in wooden sluices.

6. However, the Babylonians have controlled this watery wilderness by creating a complex system of dikes, sluices, and canals.

7. 11 However much Asians trumpet the value of parsimony, their governments any in opening the fiscal sluices.

8. Buddles are ore processing contraptions that work like sluices to wash lighter material away from the heavier metal or ore

9. In order to keep the water in control during construction, two sluices, artificial channels for conducting water, were kept open in the dam.

10. The loosened gravel and gold would then pass over sluices, with the gold settling to the bottom where it was collected.

11. Anglers can practice their sport in different sluices and, with its three riding estates , Tinnum is the ideal holiday location for all fans of equestrian sports.

12. Although the German part of the Saar has been upgraded to a waterway by deepening, construction of sluices and straightening, there is no significant shipping traffic.

13. Some were quite complex, with aqueducts, dams, and sluices to maintain and channel the water, along with systems of gears, or toothed-wheels made of wood and metal to regulate the speed of rotation.

14. He is causing vapors to ascend from the extremity of the earth; he has made even sluices for the rain; he is bringing forth the wind from his storehouses, he who struck down the firstborn ones of Egypt, both man and beast.