資料來源 : pyDict

水門,水閘,蓄水泄洪,沖洗奔流

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sluice \Sluice\, n. [OF. escluse, F. ['e]cluse, LL. exclusa,
   sclusa, from L. excludere, exclusum, to shut out: cf. D.
   sluis sluice, from the Old French. See {Exclude}.]
   1. 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.

   2. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows;
      a source of supply.

            Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon.
                                                  --Harte.

            This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of
            sensibility.                          --I. Taylor.

   3. The stream flowing through a flood gate.

   4. (Mining) 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.

資料來源 : WordNet®

sluice
     n : conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a
         sluicegate [syn: {sluiceway}, {penstock}]
     v 1: pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across
          the barrier reef" [syn: {sluice down}]
     2: irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth" [syn:
        {flush}]
     3: transport in or send down a sluice; "sluice logs"
     4: draw through a sluice; "sluice water"