engelska-finska översättning av sluice
Definition av sluice
- An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply
- The stream flowing through a floodgate
- An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing
- To emit by, or as by, flood gates
- To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
- To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice
- To wash (''down'or ''out''
- To flow, pour
- To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See
Exempel
- to sluice meadows
- to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining
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