| • | An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or
   gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a
   water gate or flood gate. | 
											
															| • | Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows;
   a source of supply. | 
											
															| • | The stream flowing through a flood gate. | 
											
															| • | A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for
   washing auriferous earth. | 
											
															| • | To emit by, or as by, flood gates. | 
											
															| • | To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice
   meadows. | 
											
															| • | To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a
   sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining. |