Définitions
1.NounAn 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.
2.NounA water gate or floodgate.
3.NounHence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
4.NounThe stream flowing through a floodgate.
5.NounA long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
6.NounAn instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
7.VerbTo emit by, or as by, flood gates.
8.VerbTo wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
9.VerbTo wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice."to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining"
10.VerbTo wash (down or out).
11.VerbTo flow, pour.
12.VerbTo elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.