Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The material of a sluice or sluiceway.
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- verb Present participle of
sluice . - noun The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a
drenching . - noun linguistics A kind of
ellipsis , introduced by aninterrogative , where (usually) everything except the interrogative iselided from theclause , as in "I like him, but I don't know why".
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- adjective pouring from or as if from a sluice
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Examples
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My initial interpretation was the sluicing was before 1968 but you’re right, it may have been long term sluicing from 1968 to 2005.
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The most dangerous part of the work is "sluicing" the logs.
Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls Anonymous
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Every morning early, before the pressure was off, all hands would turn out for a general "sluicing" under the hydrants.
A Yankee in the Trenches Robert Derby Holmes
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He saw again the rotten "sluicing," through whose hopeless rifts and holes even their scant daily earnings had become scantier.
Stories in Light and Shadow Bret Harte 1869
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Perlstein kicks off the conference with an analysis of conservative anger, tracing its history and discussing the "sluicing" that conservatives do to keep people angry by giving them stories that reinforce their fears.
Slate Magazine David Weigel 2010
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Water was sluicing out of the drains that remove water from the roof of my office building yesterday afternoon.
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Water was sluicing out of the drains that remove water from the roof of my office building yesterday afternoon.
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Under the steeply raked hood, the Prius v hosts the now-familiar Prius gas-electric drivetrain, consisting of a 1.8-liter gas engine working with two motor/generators and the nickel-metal hydride battery pack, sluicing mechanical force and regenerated electrons back and forth through the car's power-splitting planetary gearset.
The Fuel-Sipping Prius Gets a Bigger Brother Dan Neil 2011
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Claire imagines it, eons after the wounding: massive as an ocean liner, sluicing through schools of smaller sea creatures, then hurtling high into the clouds, a blot of black against a cerulean sky.
Harpoon Tina Barry 2011
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He felt the Wyatts cheer, felt himself turn hot and fluid, desire sluicing through him like a flash flood.
A Light at Winter’s End Julia London 2011
brtom commented on the word sluicing
...and then she went to sluicing out coffee with one hand and cracking the handiest child's head with her thimble with the other... HF 37
December 9, 2006