sluice
Pronunciation:
/sluːs/noun
Definitions
An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
A water gate or floodgate.
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
The stream flowing through a floodgate.
verb
Definitions
To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
Example: to sluice meadows
To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
(more generally) To wash (down or out).