sluicing

An obsolete adjective meaning 'pouring or flowing like a sluice; drenching.' It is no longer in common use.

• 🇫🇷Adjectif désuet signifiant « qui coule ou s'écoule comme par une écluse ; torrentiel ». N'est plus utilisé dans le langage courant.

1. Pouring or flowing heavily C1 formal

   Describing a flow of water that is strong, heavy, or gushing, as if from a sluice gate.

   • The sluicing rain flooded the streets within minutes.
   • Sluicing water from the dam roared down the channel.
   • The sluicing current made the river crossing dangerous.

   🇫🇷Déversement abondant

   Synonymes: cascadingfloodinggushingpouringrushingspoutingstreamingsurging

A verb meaning to wash or flush out with a stream of water, or to flow out in a stream.

• 🇫🇷Verbe signifiant laver ou emporter à grande eau, ou s'écouler en un flot puissant.

1. Pour or flow freely C1 formal

   To cause water or another liquid to flow in a large stream, as if released from a sluice gate.

   • The water sluiced down the mountainside after the dam broke.
   • He sluiced the mud off the deck with a hose.
   • Rainwater sluiced through the gutters during the storm.

   🇫🇷déverser abondamment

   Synonymes: cascadefloodgushpourrushspoutstreamsurge

2. Irrigate using a sluice C1 formal technical

   To supply land with water by means of a sluice or channel.

   • Farmers sluice their fields from the nearby canal.
   • The ancient system sluiced the valley with river water.
   • They sluiced the dry soil to prepare it for planting.

   🇫🇷Irriguer au moyen d'une écluse

   Synonymes: irrigatewater

3. Transport via a sluice C1 formal technical

   To send or move something, such as logs or ore, down a sluice channel.

   • The logs were sluiced down the river to the sawmill.
   • Miners sluiced gravel to separate gold from sediment.
   • They sluiced the debris away from the construction site.

   🇫🇷Acheminer par une écluse à bois

4. Draw through a sluice C1 formal technical

   To pass or draw something through a sluice or similar channel.

   • The water was sluiced through the narrow channel to power the mill.
   • They sluiced the liquid through a filter to remove impurities.
   • The system sluices the coolant through the engine block.

   🇫🇷Faire passer par une écluse

   Synonymes: channelconveydirectdraw offflushfunnel

• sluiced past participle
• sluiced past simple
• sluicing present participle
• sluices third person singular

Variantes phrasal: sluice down