Meaning of SLUICE in Punjabi

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Meaning of SLUICE in English

• 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.

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