sluice

1. A body of water impounded behind a floodgate.

2. A long inclined trough, as for carrying logs or separating gold ore.

3. A sluiceway.

4. A valve or gate used in such a channel; a floodgate: open sluices to flood a dry dock. Also called sluice gate.

5. An artificial channel for conducting water, with a valve or gate to regulate the flow: sluices connecting a reservoir with irrigated fields.

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1. To draw off by or through a sluice.

2. To wash with or in water running through or from a sluice.

3. To drench with a sudden flow .

4. To transport (as logs) in a sluice.

5. To pour as if from a sluice.

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1. To flow out from or as if from a sluice.

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1. To draw off or let out by a sluice: sluice floodwater.

2. To flood or drench with or as if with a flow of released water.

3. To send (logs, for example) down a sluice.

4. To wash with water flowing in a sluice: sluicing sediment for gold.

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
sluice	8	Scrabble

2 Letters	Scrabble® Points
si	2
li	2
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es	2
el	2
us	2

3 Letters	Scrabble® Points
sel	3
sei	3
sec	5
lie	3
sic	5
sue	3
lis	3
cel	5
leu	3
lei	3
use	3
cis	5
ice	5
els	3
ecu	5
cue	5

4 Letters	Scrabble® Points
slue	4
sice	6
ceil	6
cels	6
clue	6
cues	6
isle	4
lues	4
luce	6
lieu	4
lies	4
lice	6
leis	4
ecus	6
ices	6

5 Letters	Scrabble® Points
sulci	7
slice	7
luces	7
ceils	7
clues	7
lieus	5
ileus	5

6 Letters	Scrabble® Points
sluice	8