sluice

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an artificial channel or gate that controls a rapid flow of water

   The miners opened the sluice to wash gravel through the wooden trough.

2. 2
   verb

   to wash, flush, or drench with a strong stream of water

   Workers sluiced the mud from the pavement after the flood.

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Simplified etymology

Sluice entered Middle English through French and comes from the same root as Latin claudere, “to shut,” reflecting the use of a sluice gate to shut off the flow of water.

From Middle English scluse or sluse, through Anglo-Norman escluse from Late Latin exclusa, 'a barrier or gate,' related to Latin excludere, 'to shut out.'

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