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Yes, sluice is playable

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"Sluice" Definition

noun

A body of water impounded behind a floodgate.
A long inclined trough, as for carrying logs or separating gold ore.
A sluiceway.
A valve or gate used in such a channel; a floodgate: open sluices to flood a dry dock. Also called sluice gate.
An artificial channel for conducting water, with a valve or gate to regulate the flow: sluices connecting a reservoir with irrigated fields.

verb-transitive

To draw off or let out by a sluice: sluice floodwater.
To flood or drench with or as if with a flow of released water.
To send (logs, for example) down a sluice.
To wash with water flowing in a sluice: sluicing sediment for gold.

verb-intransitive

To flow out from or as if from a sluice.

verb

To draw off by or through a sluice.
To wash with or in water running through or from a sluice.
To drench with a sudden flow .
To transport (as logs) in a sluice.
To pour as if from a sluice.

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