sluice
📖 Definitions
noun
1. An artificial channel, stream, etc.
2. A valve or gate to control the flow of a liquid.
3. A body of water controlled by a sluice gate.
verb tr.
1. To let out, by or as if by, opening a gate.
2. To wash, flush, cleanse, etc.
3. To send logs, gold-bearing gravel, or other material down a sluice.
verb intr.
To flow, as if from or through a sluice.
💬 Usage Examples
“She pulled her cell phone from her bag with trembling fingers and keyed in Angie’s number, her sluice of emotions obliterating her conviction.” Tracey Richardson; Heartsick; Bella Books; 2017. “I was not born to this wariness.
I came of age as my kind do -- armed with ache and swathed in rectitude, a rough carving sluiced under a torrent of disregard.” Rita Dove; Unaccompanied Anthem; Poetry (Chicago, Illinois); Apr 2023.