sluice
Word family adjectivesluicynounsluicesluicegate
sluice1 /sluːs/ noun [countableC] TTWa passage for water to flow through, with a special gate which can be opened or closed to control it 水闸,水门 sluice2 verb 1 [transitiveT]WASH to wash something with a lot of water 冲洗sluice something out/down He was sluicing down the table and the floor. 他正在冲洗桌子和地板。
2. [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]POUR if water sluices somewhere, a large amount of it suddenly flows there 〔水〕奔流,奔泻 Origin sluice1 (1300-1400) Old French escluse, from
Late Latin exclusa, from
Latin excludere;
→ EXCLUDE