sluice

1. (verb) irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"
Synonyms: flush
Related Words: douse, dowse, drench, soak, sop, souse

2. (verb) draw through a sluice, as of water
Related Words: draw, take out

3. (verb) transport in or send down a sluice, as of logs
Related Words: transport

4. (verb) flow or pour from or as if from a sluice
Related Words: flow

5. (verb) pour as if from a sluice
Synonyms: sluice down
Related Words: pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream

6. (noun) carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
Synonyms: penstock, sluiceway
Related Words: channel, conduit



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