sluice

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sluice englannista suomeksi

An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
A water gate or floodgate.
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
(RQ:Congreve Old Batchelour)
{{quote-text|en|year=1767|author=Walter Harte|title=Eulogius: Or, The Charitable Mason
(RQ:Isaac Taylor Saturday Evening) opens the sluices of sensibility.
The stream flowing through a floodgate.
A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
{{quote-text|en|year=1855|author=William Howitt|title=Land, Labour and Gold; or, Two Years in Victoria
{{quote-book|en|year=1861|author=Thomas Hughes|title=Tom Brown at Oxford|location=London|publisher=Macmillan & Co.|chapter=XIII|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26851/pg26851-images.html
{{quote-text|en|year=1993|author=Paul Theroux|title=Millroy the Magician|page=61
{{quote-text|en|year=2000|author=Laurel E. Fay|title=Shostakovich: A Life|chapter=7|page=120|publisher=Oxford University Press
To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.

(ux)

To wash (''down'' or ''out'').
(RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2) he did plot the Duke of Gloucester's death, / Suggest his soon-believing adversaries, / And consequently, like a traitor coward, / Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood
{{quote-book|en|year=1910|author=Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany|Lord Dunsany|chapter=Bethmoora|title=A Dreamer's Tales|location=London|publisher=George Allen & Sons|page=68|url=https://archive.org/details/dreamerstales00dunsuoft
{{quote-book|en|year=1977|author=Timothy Findley|title=The Wars|publisher=Penguin Canada|year_published=1985|page=60
To flow, pour.
{{quote-text|en|year=1932|author=Robinson Jeffers|chapter=Thurso's Landing|title=The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers|url=https://archive.org/details/selectedpoetryof009002mbp|page=311|publisher=Random House|location=New York
{{quote-text|en|year=1934|author=George Orwell|title=Burmese Days|url=http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200051h.html|chapter=23
{{quote-book|en|year=1980|author=Peter De Vries|title=Consenting Adults, or The Duchess Will Be Furious|publisher=Penguin|chapter=12|pages=185–6
{{quote-text|en|year=1986|author=Tanith Lee|title=Delirium's Mistress|location=New York|publisher=Daw Books|section=Book Two, Part Two, Chapter 6, p. 240
To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See (m).