4. (Mining)
Defn: A long box or trough through which water flows, — used for washing auriferous earth. Sluice gate, the sliding gate of a sluice.
SLUICE
Sluice, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sluiced; p. pr. & vb. n. Sluicing.]
1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates. [R.] Milton.
2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt. He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. De Quincey.
3. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
SLUICEWAY
Sluice"way`, n.
Defn: 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.
SLUICY
Slui`cy, a.
Defn: Falling copiously or in streams, as from a sluice.
And oft whole sheets descend of sluicy rain. Dryden.