sluice down

1. 1.

   pour as if from a sluice

   “An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef”

   Synonymssluice

   Broaderpour

Questions about sluice down

What does sluice down mean?

sluice down means "pour as if from a sluice".

What is another word for sluice down?

Close synonyms include sluice. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sluice down a common word?

sluice down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.