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say it: sloos
sluice is a verb and noun meaning "pour as if from a sluice". It carries 5 recorded senses.
pour as if from a sluice
“An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef”
transport in or send down a sluice
“sluice logs”
conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sluice come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.