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Grizzly :: Grizzly (a.) In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices..

Sluice :: Sluice (n.) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth..

Clough :: Clough (n.) A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.

Sluiced :: Sluiced (imp. & p. p.) of Sluic.

Go-out :: Go-out (n.) A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out..

Trunk :: Trunk (n.) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.

Flash :: Flash (n.) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal..

Batardeau :: Batardeau (n.) A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall..

Sluice :: Sluice (n.) The stream flowing through a flood gate.

Sluice :: Sluice (v. t.) To emit by, or as by, flood gates..

Sluicy :: Sluicy (a.) Falling copiously or in streams, as from a sluice..

Paddle :: Paddle (v. i.) A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough.

Sasse :: Sasse (n.) A sluice or lock, as in a river, to make it more navigable..

Sluice :: Sluice (n.) 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..

Spilt :: Spillway (n.) A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam..

Sluice :: Sluice (v. t.) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows..

Hatch :: Hatch (n.) A flood gate; a a sluice gate.

Unsluice :: Unsluice (v. t.) To sluice; to open the sluice or sluices of; to let flow; to discharge.

Waterwork :: Waterwork (n.) An hydraulic apparatus, or a system of works or fixtures, by which a supply of water is furnished for useful or ornamental purposes, including dams, sluices, pumps, aqueducts, distributing pipes, fountains, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural..

Sluiceway :: Sluiceway (n.) An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery..

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