資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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®
sluicing
adj : pouring from or as if from a sluice; "the sluicing rain"