sluice

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for sluice

sluice 🔊 /sluˈs/

sluice : බැස යන ජලයෙන් සෝදනවා

sluice : දියදොර

sluice : සොරොව්ව

sluice : බිසෝකොටුව

sluice : දියපාරකින් සෝදා හරිනවා

sluice : හොරොව්ව

sluice definition

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.

Transitive verb.

  1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
  2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
  3. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.