Sluice (Noun)
Meaning
Conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- A small sluice channeled water from the lake to the lower-lying farmland.
- The heavy rainfall had overwhelmed the sluice, causing it to overflow its banks.
- A sturdy sluice connected the millpond to the turbine that powered the machinery.
- Water flowed swiftly through the narrow sluice that irrigated the crops below.
- Engineers had installed a large sluice to redirect water from the flooded river to a drainage ditch.