How To Use Sluice In A Sentence

The buildings are long gone, but some foundations are still there, as well as the nearby mill stream and part of a dam and sluiceway.
What lawns deserve is grey water, that basinful of (cooled) soapy washing-up water, the sluiced out teapot, the diverted bathwater. Times, Sunday Times
If rain falls into the bird's mouth, theoretically it could sluice down the windpipe past the larynx and into the lungs.
On the other side of the wall on the right is the sluicegate. Hyde Daily Photo
SLUICE ROBBER: one way of separating gold from the gravel and sand in which it is found is to put the mixture into a slanting trough, called a sluice, through which water is run. The Short-story

Then, finally throwing the switch he opened the floodgate to the sluice, and let the water roll out into the place that was once the White River.
What lawns deserve is grey water, that basinful of (cooled) soapy washing-up water, the sluiced out teapot, the diverted bathwater. Times, Sunday Times
Sadly, the remains of the mill itself were demolished on safety grounds in the late 1950s, but the mill lades, complete with sluice gate, survive and form an attractive feature of the gardens.
Ramirez turned the taps, and hot water sluiced into the vast bath as he walked around the gargantuan chamber, pulling various bottles out of the cabinets that lined the upper reaches, sealed against the invasion of water.
This had caused levels in the lodge to fluctuate and water had to be diverted from the stream via a sluice.
To avoid the effect of unidirectional layered compression summation method without considering side swell, the approximate calculation formula for estimating sluice(dam) foundation sinking is derived.
The area consists of a flat patchwork of marshes in the Gangetic plain, artificially created in the 1850s and maintained ever since by a system of canals, sluices and dykes. Keoladeo (Bharatpur) National Park, India
And just as the miner makes the broken-down gold-bearing stuff run through his constructed sluices, Nature sends all her gold in a torrent into the natural sluice which is known as the Fraser Canyon. A Tramp's Notebook
It was a regular antheap all the way in, with the miners crawling over the tree-clad slopes, and the ceaseless thump of picks and scrape of shovels and ring of axes, and ramshackle huts and shanties and sluice-boxes everywhere, with dirty bearded fellows in slouch hats and galluses cussing and burrowing, and claim signs all along Sweetheart Mine, Crossbone Diggings, Damyereyes Gulch, and the like. Isabelle
Saturday's rain sluiced away the week's snowfall, which the balance of an albescent Sunday replaced.
And doctors' surgeries be audited like a family bathroom, to save harmful, unnatural chemicals being sluiced around these places of healing?
We fished until almost dinnertime, then cleaned and scraped our stringer of bluegill, goggle-eye perch, and sacalait in the sluice of water from the windmill. The Convict and Other Stories
She stopped, staring, as several score thoughts and fears, feelings and emotions kicked her in the tail, clenching her gut and sending a sluice of cold water down her spine.
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Call you at half after five in the mornin ', an' you get up an 'take a' sluice '-- if there's any soap. The People of the Abyss
The water sluiced over me like a gentle rain, leaving my skin slick and gleaming. Brush of Darkness
The pavement of the trough is generally laid of blocks of wood 6 inches in thickness, cut across the grain, and placed on their ends, to the width of the sluiceway. Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884
A company of Süderländers who had been ordered to cross the bridge, went right about face, as soon as they came in sight of the Dalecarlians, and did not halt till they reached the sluicegate, which had been drawn up, so that nobody might pass. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
Since acquiring the redundant farmland the trust has carried out a programme of restoration which has included restoring sluices, re-opening waterways and a grazing policy.
We opened the sluices and the upstream water of the river poured into the lock.
I constructed near the seashore a little sluiceway, to draw off the water whenever I desired. Champlain's Dream
Through one of the view ports I watched a young woman wearing rubber boots above her knees scoop up all the, er, used hay, into a rolling cart before she sluiced the floor with soapy water and began to mop.
We have restored electric supply to the salt works, constructed a sluice gate with the low investment of 24 lakes to check overflow of flood water with the support from salt dept.
As the hot water sluiced into the sunken tub, easing her aches and pains, she began to think about the gruelling casting.
No sooner had the flow of liquor from Rum Row in the Northeast been stanched than it began to gush in unprecedented quantities through the sluiceway that was Detroit, where an overmatched prosecutor said, “The greatest obstacle to the attainment of Prohibition is the Constitution of the United States, the instrument that decreed its birth.” LAST CALL
If the sluices were co-ordinated with the tidal barrier the whole water level from Malton to Barmby could be drastically lowered and reduce flooding.
He need only reach the race and open the sluice gate, and the mill would be defended by swift water, diverted from the river. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
Six feet of water had sluiced through the town and washed away hundreds of homes.
It consisted of a replica cogwheel with wire rope and was intended to symbolise the technology used in operating the sluices.
The stream has now become nothing more than a sediment sluice with rock pools filled-in with sand and gravel, and former riffle reaches submerged in sediment.
Patients were not allowed to develop bedsores (it was a shameful admission) and the wards, beds and sluices were spotless. Times, Sunday Times
Half-way the length of the sluice-boxes the finest gravel, yellow and black sand, dropped through perforated sheet-iron grizzles into the The Man from the Bitter Roots
Then the inner cavities were sluiced out with various aromatic and disinfecting fluids prior to sewing up.
Also briefly described is the newly developed sluice fine screen.
The ore itself had to be weathered before sluicing in a process similar to gold placering, in which dirt was washed through sluice boxes so that heavier elements-like gold and sapphires-dropped to the bottom and became lodged in riffles.
The glassy lake began to ruffle itself below her, feeling the pulses of its interfluent springs, or sending through unseen sluices word of nightfall and evening winds to all its clustering companions that darkened their transparent depths in forest-shadows. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
But the wheel was rusted tight, the sluice gate stuck in place. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
Pointed out was the fact that due to the closure of these sluice gates there was no flow of water, resulting in water stagnating in the khazan lands.
An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef
The pool itself, muddy and discolored from the sluice boxes, effectually hid what it contained, and it contained John Thornton; for Buck followed his trace into the water, from which no trace led away. Chapter 7
There is one sluice gate open at the moment, with conditions best for fly fishing.
We had to sluice out the garage to get rid of the smell of petrol.
Billy Camp began to worry about shooting the wanigan through the sluice-way. The Blazed Trail
If it isn't going over the sluice gate then it isn't raining too much.
Especially as it said that in case of contact with the mucous membrane - that's another expression to make us girls feel good about ourselves - you're supposed to sluice yourself down right away with lots of water.
Another option is to open sluices, releasing water and lowering river levels.
Fascinated by the five-inch stream, sluiced out of the earth and back to the earth by the droning motor, he forgot his discourse and stood and gazed, rapt and unheeding, while his visitors drove on. CHAPTER XIV
Besides Mr. Oakhurst, who was known to be a coolly desperate man, and for whose intimidation the armed escort was intended, the expatriated party consisted of a young woman familiarly known as "The Duchess;" another who had won the title of "Mother Shipton;" and "Uncle Billy," a suspected, sluice-robber and confirmed drunkard. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers
Convenience sluice gate rapidly, energy, fluid resistance small, you can always operate.
Modern science has yet to explain how it is that a bathtub, which gets sluiced with soapy water just about every day, gets dirty.
With a barn that moves weekly, there is no concrete floor where manure builds up, no permanently muddy patch that must be sluiced off.
Power sluiced past his gaping jaws and coursed over his hackles. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
Analyze load behavior of sluice with method of - dimension - linearity finite - element method. 6.
And an outstation of the Agency had Sluice Operator as a job grade. [hr] and the mania for box ticking
The incident happened on the B-floor sluice, when Orchard was slopping out. THE SCAR
And as for you, Mr Beaver, when you get home you will find your dam finished and mended and all the leaks stopped and a new sluicegate fitted. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
I wouldn't drink from it until I was certain I had sluiced it thoroughly as if I feared death was a communicable disease. BETTER THAN THIS
The pent-up waters, controlled by a sluice gate, were directed past the mill wheel, driving the wooden gears, shafts and millstones.
Another sluice gate keeps floodwater out of the lake.
Xiaolangdi, a major reservoir along the notoriously flood-prone river, opened its sluice gate to release extra water from downpours during the past week, the report said.
The Jordan Valley is a perfect avian sluiceway; for millennia a feathery tide has ridden it, indifferent to the human dramas playing out below.
Great dollops of water sluiced the very long glossy leaves of the sweet chestnuts.
Before the construction of dams and barrages, floodwaters would spill out of the river's banks and, channeled by sluices and dikes, cover most of the agricultural land.
Then follows after line 14, the drawing of a sluicegate -- _conca_ -- of which the use is explained in the text below it. The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 2
He sluiced the bath and filled it.
These are then used to keep the cruiser steady as water sluices out of the lock.
He drank enormous quantities of water, but so great was the heat of the day and of his exertions, that the water sluiced through the interstices of his flesh and out at all his pores. Chapter 17
A spokesman for the agency said the penstock sluice gates were opened after the last bout of flooding to allow trapped water to return to the river, but after an ‘oversight’ they were left open.
I quickly sluiced my face with cold water.
He drank enormous quantities of water, but so great was the heat of the day and of his exertions, that the water sluiced through the interstices of his flesh and out at all his pores.
The track was not used often, but had a water ditch on one side which would regularly have to be drained through a sluice gate.
A sluice gate, half hidden behind the roof of the mill, controls the water to power the waterwheel.
Led by the local district council and part-funded by the Energy Saving Trust, the 10 mill owners are installing new turbines, restoring blocked leats and repairing sluice gates.
He proposed connecting the water supply across different river basins, built new canals with many sluices to control the water level, and achieved great success with the improvements which he was able to make.
Once the water is sluiced off, the brakes might suddenly get big power.
Corney boasted, immediately swinging around, and heading toward the spot where the moss-covered wheel of the deserted mill could be seen, with little streams of water trickling over it from the broken sluiceway above. Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School
Before the construction of dams and barrages, floodwaters would spill out of the river's banks and, channeled by sluices and dikes, cover most of the agricultural land.
Car passes the living room, an operculum widens into sluice — red filigree arches and gray fish mouth cleaves the heel of air — and seals again within its glistened sleeve. Not from the self but from the Other
Gravels were added to a sluice box, and gravity-sorting concentrated the gold.
'Tom' begat the sluice, which is of two kinds, natural and artificial. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
He sluiced his face and brushed his teeth, but the aftertaste of the chicken could not be dislodged. THE ENDLESS GAME
We will have an intersection here the size of a village, twin bridges spanning the banks of the mighty ring road, a centrifuge pulsing cars through sluiceways.
On the 13 th of May, 1935, at 4: 40 am, the sluice gate to the coffer dam which had protected the new basin was opened and the water rushed in.
Both of these developments necessitated the construction of dams, sluices, and water channels, the design of which influenced the construction of reservoirs for water supply under gravity.
Ashore a spume of brine water rains from an overhanging crag and sluices back through the beach.
The school closed off that particular area and it has been sluiced and cleaned.
Although the industry collapsed more than a century ago, the greater part of the island is occupied by the ‘salinas ‘or salt-ponds, with the remains of sluice gates and windmills still evident.’
We opened the sluice and the water poured in.
As soon as the sluice gate was opened, the water surged in.
Inside he is sluiced, scrubbed, massaged, rinsed, and blown dry with the automated precision associated with a modern car wash.
He need only reach the race and open the sluice gate, and the mill would be defended by swift water, diverted from the river. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
Rain sluiced down from the debris, pooling around her ankles. Rogue Oracle
The river had narrowed, and the tons of water squeezing into this natural funnel spout had essentially transformed a lazy stream into a raging sluiceway. SERPENT
The Jinshan Dam took when flood-diversion sluice downriver anti- water barrier, it eradicates cannot have the artificial resistance.
These rapids range from tame sluiceways to a shoulder-high waterfall.
So you stood with Connor on the little concrete apron just upstream of the sluicegate. Leave the Grave Green
Having left my shoes outside at the reception desk I was given a locker for my clothes and belongings, before being ushered by the receptionist into the shower room for a thorough sluice down and then put into a steam room for 15 minutes.
Huge mounds of river rock stand with great hubris along the creek banks, remnants of the exhaustive sluice and placer mining operations that once took place on the town's perimeter.
A kind of broad trough, running in a slanting direction and called a sluice, was on one side, and into this a quantity of wash was put, and a tap at the top turned on, which caused the water to wash the dirt down the sluice. Madame Midas
And once we'd boxed up his butchering gear and sluiced down the boards of the wagon, a bucket at a time, it became something we never talked on again.
Daybreak this morning the Hambleden lockkeeper, one Perry Smith, opens the sluicegate to fill the lock for an early traveler, and a body rushes through it into the lock. Leave the Grave Green
Other work will include restoration of the sluice gate, iron work, edging stones and walling.
I stood like that for a long time while water sluiced over me and formed rivulets around scar tissue, splashing and washing down the drain.
We had to sluice out the garage to get rid of the smell of petrol.
Sheets of foam sluiced down the face of the massive waves. Gideon’s war
Locally the sluices and waterways from the flood plain to the river are in several cases clogged up.
Leave to marinate for a good 4-6 hours (overnight won't hurt), then serve them, scattered with the capers, with hunks of bread or on thin sluices of garlicky bruschetta.
sluice the earth
The cliffs are a reminder that a giant, lazy river sluiced through the prairie as it coursed west to the Pacific, a passage since blocked by the rise of the Andes.
It was July, but the rain that had caught them on the portico of the National Library continued to sluice down. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
Zlotin climbed back up on to the landing above the oubliette, then crouched down beside a wheel situated directly above the sluice-gate. CODE BREAKER
He poured his solution in, and watched in horror and disbelief as the white membrane filter dissolved and merrily sluiced through the glass frit along with his compound.
We had to sluice out the garage to get rid of the smell of petrol.
sluice logs
In the cage, I could hear only the sluice and swoosh of rushing and retreating water.
Bloke has a few drinks, goes for a stroll on the sluicegate, falls in. Leave the Grave Green
Before the construction of dams and barrages, floodwaters would spill out of the river's banks and, channeled by sluices and dikes, cover most of the agricultural land.
Open that sluice gate and let water out into the channel.
I can't cite any similar highhandness on Woodward's part, nor is he the sort to sluice the words of authorities directly into his journalism.
I wouldn't drink from it until I was certain I had sluiced it thoroughly as if I feared death was a communicable disease. BETTER THAN THIS
The Environment Agency has already agreed to provide £220,000 from a levy on local authorities to fund the first two phases of the scheme - an embankment and a sluice gate.
The object of this laborious operation is obvious, as the long tunnel becomes a sluiceway, and through the whole length of which sluice boxes are laid, for the double motive of carrying off the material and saving the gold, and for this purpose a trough of strong planks is placed in the tunnel, 2½ feet wide, and with sides high enough to contain the stream. Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884
Mr Hanson was dressed apart from his shoes and socks, which were discovered near the reservoir's sluice gate, along with a house key on a ring.
Both of these developments necessitated the construction of dams, sluices, and water channels, the design of which influenced the construction of reservoirs for water supply under gravity.
This would be used to pump water from the beck into the river when the sluice was closed, so that beckwater did not itself back up and flood the roads.
We still use it for watering the garden and I have been known to sluice the back of my neck under it on a hot afternoon (not often this summer).
A sluice gate, half hidden behind the roof of the mill, controls the water to power the waterwheel.
He had given it out, rather vaguely, that he needed the animals for sledding lumber from the mill to his sluices, and right here is where Sitka Charley demonstrated his fitness. THE SCORN OF WOMEN
Work will include restoration of the sluice gate and ironwork, de-silting the pond and replacing the edging stones.
In 2002 rapid sluicegate action to prevent future pollution was still needed. Srebarna Nature Reserve, Bulgaria
Its waters are only a sluice gate away from being part of the Port Solent harbour.
The problem was that the same water essential to the powering of industry also served to granulate and sluice hundreds of thousands of tons of slag, tailings, and smelter waste into the river.
They have 1.7 grams after two programmes out of six which seems reasonable bearing in mind that they also have some left not weighed in the fibrous material they use to catch the gold particles from their sluice.
Then the inner cavities were sluiced out with various aromatic and disinfecting fluids prior to sewing up.
He could hear Joe working the handle of the sluice that would send water gushing into the other troughs.
We opened the sluices and the upstream water of the river poured into the lock.
The cliffs are a reminder that a giant, lazy river sluiced through the prairie as it coursed west to the Pacific, a passage since blocked by the rise of the Andes.
Mean while the sudden affluence occasioned by trade, forced open all the sluices of luxury and overflowed the land with every species of profligacy and corruption; a total pravity of manners would ensue, and this must be attended with bankruptcy and ruin. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
The water was fed to the mill through a cast iron sluice box set in the back wall.
When it's finished we want to test it by blocking up the sluice gate using a bale of hay or something similar.
Dozens of small balsa-wood structures were scattered on the cement floor, both within and outside the ambit of a crude wooden sluice system that carried a fitfully circulating trickle of water.
The Village Voice put its sassiest junior movie critic on the Meyer beat, opening the sluice gate to torrents of mannered enthusiasm.
All these brilliant images took possession of our fancies as soon as the boy had uttered the unlucky word "sluice;" and smiling to one another, we made up our minds to rest contentedly where we were. Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II
While we sluice, the manager played with a carved paper knife.
He even made a sluice of tin and boards to catch and carry the rainwater to the parched crops.
A major practice is to sluice through pipelines to settling pond.
The southern one, on the other hand, covered also with a scanty vegetation and scattered trees, broadened out so as nearly to land-lock the cove behind it, and cause its waters to rush in or out, according to the tide, through an exceedingly contracted passage at its extreme southwestern end, popularly known as "the sluiceway. Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892
The spillway is located on the right bank, and it has 14 segmented sluice-gates with a total discharge rate of 62,200 cubic meters per second. Itaipú dam
The sluice gate regulates the volume of water that strikes the wheel, and has to be judged with some care to prevent the mill stones from spinning too fast and vibrating too much.
The wreckage of the spring washing appeared everywhere -- piles of sluice-boxes, sections of elevated flumes, huge water-wheels, -- all the debris of an army of gold-mad men. Chapter XIII
Other senses of the OF. word (and of the related forms ventele, ventail, and vental) are fan, vane (of a windmill), sluice, shutter, leaf (of a folding door or picture). Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
They were in no mood to squander it as they started afresh when play commenced at 11 am, 30 minutes late as the last of the overnight storms were sluiced from the field.
I knew very well, however, that the appointed place was the little sluice – house by the limekiln on the marshes, and the hour nine. Great Expectations
Our bays and inlets could be protected by floating booms and where they exist, by closing sluice gates,’ she said.
Work will include restoration of the sluice gate and ironwork, de-silting the pond and replacing the edging stones.
The name "Slumgullion Pass" came about because the color of the sliding mud reminded local gold miners of the muddy sediments, called slumgullion, in their sluice boxes. The Vail Trail - All Sections
This large drain runs straight in a North Easterly direction, under various bridges, the Well Creek, eventually ending at a sluice which separates the fresh water from the salt water of the Tidal Ouse.
Also briefly described is the newly developed sluice fine screen.
He chops wood, mows his own field, goes knee-deep into mud to clean sluices in his own pond, prunes back elder trees and picks pears.
They regulate the flow of water by the sluice gate.
Her mind opened, a huge sluice gate to the onslaught of maddened thoughts.
The fields are bounded by drainage ditches and sluices are now being added so that the water levels can be controlled to provide the optimum conditions.
Then sluice everything down with a coffee tarek.
The bridge is separated into two parts by a wooden sluice gate.
There is plastic in the trees from the last floods that obviously sluiced over our path.
A single spotlight on the sluice gate attracts the shrimp.
I quickly sluiced my face with cold water.
Searching for a definition for the word "sluice," I naturally turned to my trusty friend, Traffick
The duty of repairing banks and sluices devolved upon frontagers, but the works were neglected and many petitions were put to the King by people who suffered flooding.
Water was pumped by an old fire-engine from the creek to the quarry to sluice clay off the stone.
The pent-up waters, controlled by a sluice gate, were directed past the mill wheel, driving the wooden gears, shafts and millstones.
It was July, but the rain that had caught them on the portico of the National Library continued to sluice down. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
I scrubbed both my arms with soap, then continued down to my flat stomach as warm water sluiced over my body.
He got away with this for years, mainly because his dad - the lock-keeper at Sonning-on-Thames - was far too busy with sluice gates and idiot boaters to notice his son was a slob.
She shook him, and rainwater sluiced off his suit in runnels to the ground. Rogue Oracle
This had what is called a sluice valve, and Lambert had been instructed to turn the screw which closed it round and round, until he found he could turn it no farther; when that was done, he would know that it was shut. Chatterbox, 1906
There is a nice park with picnic tables at the base of the dam, and above you can actually walk along the top of the colossal structure, observing the sluices and massive spillway chute from a birds-eye view.
Call you at half after five in the mornin ', an' you get up an 'take a' sluice '-- if there's any soap. THE CARTER AND THE CARPENTER

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