sluicen.

Brit.

/sluːs/, U.S.

/slus/

Forms: α. Middle English–1600s scluse, Middle English–1600s scluce, 1500s sklus. β. 1500s sleuss, sleuse, slewse, slowese. γ. 1500s Scottish slus, 1500s–1600s sluse, 1500s–1700s sluce. δ. 1500s sluyce, 1600s– sluice.

Etymology: < Old French escluse (-clusse , -clouse , etc.; modern French écluse ), = Spanish esclusa , Portuguese esclusa , late and medieval Latin exclusa (also sclusa , etc.), feminine singular of Latin exclūsus , past participle of exclūdere to shut out, exclude v.Old French is also the source of Middle Dutch sluse , sluyse , sluus (Dutch sluis , West Frisian slús ), Middle Low German sluse , sluze (Low German slüse , slüs , German schleuse ), Danish sluse , Swedish slus . For the English forms which represent the late Latin clūsa see clow n.¹ The spelling with ui (compare juice) did not come into general use until the 18th century.

a. A structure of wood or masonry, a dam or embankment, for impounding the water of river, canal, etc., provided with an adjustable gate or gates by which the volume of water is regulated or controlled. Also, rarely, the body of water so impounded or controlled.falling sluice: see falling sluice n. at falling adj. Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > gate, lock, or sluice

hatchOE

clowa1250

lock1261

water lock1261

sluice1340

water gate1390

sewer-gate1402

spay1415

floodgatec1440

shuttlec1440

spayer1450

gate1496

falling gate1524

spoye1528

gote1531

penstock1542

ventil1570

drawgate1587

flood-hatch1587

turnpike1623

slaker1664

lock gate1677

hatchway1705

flash1768

turnpike-lock1771

sluice-gate1781

pound-lock1783

stop-gate1790

buck gate1791

slacker1797

aboiteau1802

koker1814

guard-lock1815

falling sluice1819

lasher1840

fender1847

tailgate1875

weir-hatch1875

wicket1875

α.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 255 Zome uolk..byeþ ase þe melle wyþoute scluse þet alne-way went be þe yernynge of þe wetere.

1449 Rolls of Parl. V. 149/1 Geteys, Keyes, Scluces, Bankes, and other reparations.

c1480 Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 76 To an scluse to be maade, or locke if þey will.

1558 Galway Arch. in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 388 The sklus or dame, besyde the said myll.

1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries iii. 107 Some of these souldiers..chose rather to leape from the scluse into the water.

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxiv. i. 241 The scluces or floudgates made of stone worke, to let out or restraine the waters.

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 245 Being brought within a Lock of the River or Scluse, near the Castle.

β. 1533 MS. Rawl. D. 776 f. 175 Makyng of Certayne new slewssis vnder the kynges new whalke.1541–2 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 33 The maintenance..of other Clowes, sloweses, gettiez, gutters, goottes.1582 in Archaeologia 28 20 A sufficiente sleuss shalbe made for the water~course.?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 9 Whether the water be kept up by Art, in slewces.γ. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Emissarium, a sluse [1548 sluce].1568 Bannatyne MS. (Hunterian Club) 403 Ane sleiffull of slak that growis in the slus.1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 172^v Some greate streame.., which by Fludde or Sluse, may let in alwayes freshe water.1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. N8 The fresh and salt water would meete.., were it not kept asunder by a sluce.1648 J. Raymond Itinerary Voy. Italy 183 We went through nine..Machines not much unlike our Sluses, to keep up and let down the water.1695 M. Prior Ode after Queen's Death xxiii As Waters from her Sluces, flow'd Unbounded Sorrow from her Eyes.δ. 1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 148 A Pent and Sluyce hath been made, which both open the mouth, and scowre the bottome of the hauen.1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escluse, a Sluice, Floud-gate, or Water-gate.1699 S. Garth Dispensary i. 2 How from each sluice a briny Torrent pours.1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 189 It was necessary to set a great Number of Sluices to work.1785 J. Phillips Treat. Inland Navigation p. ix When the water is..like to over~flow.., they take care to open the sluices to convey it away.1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 78 A sluice was erected at Misterton to prevent the tides from flowing beyond that point.1879 H. Phillips Addit. Notes upon Coins 3 The citizens were prepared to open the sluices and dykes in order..to flood the country.in extended use.1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 97 The beavers always leave sluices, or passages near the middle, for the redundant waters to pass off.

b. figurative or in figurative contexts. (Common in 17th cent.)

ΚΠ

singular.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 255 Ac þe wise zetteþ þe scluse of discrecion uor to of healde þet weter of fole wordes.

1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 283 The number of them being verie small, who would not willingly make (as we say) a sluce to their consciences.

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 29 His margent, which is the sluce most commonly, that feeds the drouth of his text.

1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour v. i. 45 She's the very Sluce to her Lady's Secrets.

1778 F. Burney Evelina III. xiii. 132 I have..drained every sluice of compassion.

1806 M. L. Weems Life G. Washington (ed. 5) iii. 43 On receiving the ball which opened in his breast the crimson sluice of life.

a1850 J. C. Calhoun Wks. (1874) IV. 63 If the sluice of expenditures was stopped in one place, it was sure to burst through another.

plural.1578 T. Tymme tr. J. Calvin Comm. Genesis 32 If so be the sluses or floodgates of heaven were not shut.1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 402 Heare him..reckoning up the many Sluces of his Treasury.1672 J. Crowne Hist. Charles VIII i. 3 To my Window streight I did repair, And setting wide those sluces of the Air [etc.].1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. viii. 581 So from the sluices of Ulysses' eyes Fast fell the tears.1754 E. Young Centaur i, in Wks. (1757) IV. 111 Thus the sluices are set open for all sensuality..and studied arts of excess, to pour in un~controuled.1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire I. iii. 136 The execution of Lentulus and his associates would reopen the sluices of bloodshed.

c. A paddle or slide in a gate or barrier by which water is held back. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > gate, lock, or sluice > paddle, slide, or door in

sluice1601

valve1790

paddle1795

1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. iii. sig. F^v Haue I drawne the sluce Of life vp? and..set my prisoned soule at large?

1791 W. Jessop Rep. Navigation Thames 12 A Bar of Sand or Gravel, which is most easily to be removed by drawing the Sluices of the Lock.

1857 P. M. Colquhoun Compan. Oarsman's Guide 32 The sluices, otherwise called the paddles, are slides travelling in a slot or groove in the gate.

d. A device by which the flow of water, esp. into or out of some receptacle, is regulated; a valve, pipe, etc., by which water may be let in or run off.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > tap > device controlling flow of water

sluice1617

clow1820

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 137 The medicinall Baths..are shut up certaine howers of the day, that not man should enter them till by their sluces they be purged of all filth.

c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 5 About 2 yards off the doore is severall pipes..that with a sluce spoutts water up.

1798 C. Hutton Course Math. II. 342 To determine the Time of emptying a Vessel of Water by a Sluice in the Bottom of it.

1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1243 The cast~iron trough for the water is marked b, and the sluice, also of iron, c.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 79/2 Water was admitted by sluices into the caisson, which then sank.

2. A channel, drain, or small stream, esp. one carrying off overflow or surplus water.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > channel for conveyance of water > for surplus water

sluicea1552

watershoot1599

offlet?1744

dale1851

waste-way1881

spill1900

a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 31 Ther goith a sluse out of this Bath, and servid in Tymes past with Water derivid out of it 2. Places in Bath Priorie.

1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course iv. f. 38^v Towards the South it is enuironed with the scluses of Nilus.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 8 A meare or fluxe of the Sea,..swelling in 100 armes or sluces.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 124 The little Streams and Sluices of Water.

1848 G. H. Boker Calaynos i. i Ere it flows Past the foul sluices that Seville outpours.

1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 109 Oftentimes the current cuts out a deep ‘slough’, or sluice, within reach of high water mark... It forms a space of smooth water between the outer and inner breakers.

in extended use.1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 7 While we have sluces of warm bloud running through our veines.1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 172 By those secret sluces or chanels in the air.

†3. A gap, breach, opening, or hole; a gash or wound. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun]

holec725

thirla900

eyeOE

opena1200

opening?c1225

overturec1400

overta1425

wideness?c1425

howe1487

hiatus1563

vent1594

apertion1599

ferme1612

notch1615

sluice1648

gape1658

aperture1661

want1664

door1665

hiulcitya1681

to pass through the eye of a needle (also a needle's eye)1720

vista1727

light1776

ope1832

lacuna1872

doughnut hole1886

the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > cut

carfa1000

seamc1400

slapc1480

gap?a1500

gash1528

cut1530

scarification?1541

chopping1558

slash1580

slaughter1592

snip1600

hacka1610

sluice1648

1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xi. 40 He made a sluce, or breach of halfe a league of length.

1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs 187 ⁋250 Unlesse it were repelled out at another sluice or exit.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 39 The Lamprey hath seven holes or cavities..and no gills at all—these holes or sluces do indeed supply the defect of gills.

1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. i. ii. 9 Certain open Sluices on his own Head sufficiently shewed whence all the scarlet Stream had issued.

†4. A drawbridge. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > moat > [noun] > draw-bridge

bridgec1275

tu-brugge1297

draught-bridgec1330

draughtc1400

drawbridgec1400

flying bridge1489

pont-levis1489

trap-bridge1585

drawing bridge1591

sluice1642

pont tornerec1650

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > bridge > lifting-bridge > draw-bridge

bridgec1275

tu-brugge1297

draught-bridgec1330

draughtc1400

drawbridgec1400

flying bridge1489

pont-levis1489

trap-bridge1585

drawing bridge1591

sluice1642

1642 Lanc. Tracts Civil War (Chetham Soc.) 22 The King swore he would..take the towne..; but Sir John Hotham drawing up the sluce, his Majesty retreated.

1654 Trag. Alphonsus iii. 43 Some run unto the Walls, some draw up the Sluce, Some speedily let the Purculless down.

5. In gold-washing: An artificial channel or flume, usually consisting of a long sloping trough, or series of troughs, fitted with riffles, or grooves, into which a current of water is directed in order to separate the particles of gold from the auriferous earth.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for washing ore > for gold

scour1619

rocker1828

cradle1833

pan1835

Long Tom1839

Tom1839

wash-bowl1848

gold washer1849

sluice1851

wash-pan1851

tub1853

gold pan1854

mining pan1858

pan mill1869

Tommy1892

1851 San Francisco Picayune 14 Oct. 2/4 In the neighbourhood of Rough and Ready, a sluice of fourteen miles in length has been constructed.

1862 B. Taylor At Home & Abroad 2nd Ser. 144 The sand [is swept] into a long sluice. Here it is still further agitated by means of riffles [etc.].

1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 70 The gold-saving method is the simplest— amalgamation in battery, copper-plate, riffle-boxes, and a tail sluice.

1882 Rep. Precious Metals (U.S. Bureau of Mint) i. 629 The sluices are several hundred and sometimes several thousand feet in length.

Compounds

C1. With names of things.

sluice-block n.

ΚΠ

1882 Rep. Precious Metals (U.S. Bureau of Mint) i. 101 They overhauled and refitted the flume, putting in new sluice-blocks.

sluice-cock n.

ΚΠ

1837 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 27/1 Certain improvements in the construction of Sluice Cocks for Water-works.

sluice-door n.

ΚΠ

1852 J. Wiggins Pract. Embanking Lands 87 Some difficulty may exist as to keeping open the sluice doors.

sluice-house n.

ΚΠ

1829 T. Hood Epping Hunt iv In a sluice-house box He took his pipe and pot.

sluice-valve n.

ΚΠ

1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. xi. 127 The water being conducted..through vertical sluice valves.

sluice-work n.

ΚΠ

1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (at cited word) The level of the sluice-work.

C2.

sluice-fork n. a fork used to break up lumps of gravel in a gold-miner's sluice-box.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for washing ore > for gold > instruments for breaking up clay or gravel

sluice-fork1856

harrow1869

1856 San Francisco Call 16 Dec. 4/2 As he went—took it puss'nal—it commenced raining ‘sluice-forks’.

1874 A. Bathgate Colonial Experiences viii. 92 The large stones..lifted out by hand..while the smaller ones are sometimes taken out with a long handled long pronged sluice-fork.

1909 H. Thompson in A. E. Currie Centennial Treasury of Otago Verse (1949) 59 Slinging stones out with his sluice-fork—what a pleasant little game.

sluice-head n. originally U.S. a supply or head of water sufficient for flushing out a sluice; also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > body or mass > sufficient for flushing out a sluice

sluice-head1855

1855 Golden Era (San Francisco) 4 Mar. 1/6 At Eureka there are only twelve sluiceheads of water running.

1863 V. Pyke in App. Jrnls. House of Representatives N.Z. (3rd Sess. 3rd Parl.) D.–6. 15 Head races..represent about 200 sluice heads.

?a1880 G. L. Meredith Adventuring in Maoriland (1935) xiii. 145 The one we went to is just a boiling spring, running about five ‘sluice-heads’ of boiling water.

1901 E. Dyson in Austral. Short Stories (1951) 58 Mrs. Mooney..wept sluice-heads... She had been replenishing the fountain of tears with whisky.

1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 6 Jan. 12/3 Although little opened, the springs now have a flow of two sluice-heads.

C3. With agent-nouns, etc., as sluice-keeper, sluice-maker, sluice-master; also sluice-employing adj.

ΚΠ

a1725 Ld. Whitworth Acc. Russia in 1710 in Dodsley Fug. Pieces (1761) II. 214 Contrary to the Opinion of all the Ship-Carpenters and Sluice-makers.

1780 Philos. Trans. 1779 (Royal Soc.) 69 622 Many sluice masters..are accustomed to shut their gates next the sea a little after half flood.

1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 142/1 Many self-acting sluices have been contrived..to save the expense of a sluice-keeper.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right II. xxvi. 265 The dams and water-races of the sluice-employing miner.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

sluicev.

Brit.

/sluːs/, U.S.

/slus/

Forms: 1500s–1600s sluce, 1500s–1600s (1800s) sluse, 1600s sluyce, 1700s– sluice.

Etymology: < sluice n. Compare Old French escluser, Middle Dutch slusen, to shut in by, to provide with, a sluice.

a. transitive. To let out, to cause to flow out, by the opening of a sluice. Frequently figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > emit [verb (transitive)] > by the opening of a sluice

sluice1597

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 103 I say..That he did plotte the Duke of Glocesters death,..And..like a t[r]aitour coward, Slucte out his innocent soule through streames of bloud.

1599 Warning for Faire Women sig. D2^v Then stand close George, and with a luckie arme, Sluce out his life.

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 26 Every drop of it..sluced out from every part of his body.

1660 W. Secker Nonsuch Professor 6 You cannot..imagine that I should sluce out a bitter stream from so sweet a spring.

1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 257/1 It is proposed that this quantity of water shall be sluiced out through the great embankment.

reflexive.a1861 A. H. Clough Dipsychus ii. iv, in Lett. & Remains (1865) 185 I must sluice out myself into canals, And lose all force in ducts.

b. To let out or draw from some source or place in this manner. Usually in past participle. Frequently figurative.

ΚΠ

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 57 More relishsome..then the nectarized Aqua cœlestis of water-mingled blood, sluced from Christs side.

1630 J. Taylor Wks. i. 2 The vnpolluted blood from him was sluc'de.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 702 Veins of liquid fire Sluc'd from the Lake.

1805–6 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Inferno vii. 106 A well That boiling pours itself down to a foss Sluiced from its source.

1830 Ld. Tennyson Recoll. Arab. Nights iii, in Poems 49 A broad canal From the main river sluiced.

c. To lead or draw off by, or as by, a sluice.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > action or process of extracting > extract liquid [verb (transitive)] > by or as by a sluice

sluice1594

sluice1753

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xv. 89 When a stream is sluiced off into several chanels [sic], there is the less fear that it will overflow its banks.

1790 W. Taylor Let. 14 May in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 68 The National Assembly,..whose pure streams..will soon be sluiced off into the other realms of Europe.

1846 N. Hawthorne Mosses ii. 125 He will not survive it above a month, unless his accumulation of ideas be sluiced off in some other way.

1869 Contemp. Rev. 11 170 By what other means..could so many members of the human family have been sluiced off..into those stagnant pools?

a. To draw off or let out water from (a pond, lake, etc.) by means of a sluice or sluices. Frequently figurative and transferred.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > action or process of extracting > extract liquid [verb (transitive)] > by or as by a sluice

sluice1594

sluice1753

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. J4^v If by rain..those ponds were so full they need to bee sluste or let out.

1697 W. Congreve Mourning Bride v. iii. 72 I'll sluce this Heart, The Source of Woe, and let the Torrent loose.

1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 52 Led by this arm thy sons shall hither come,..Nor sluice their lakes, nor form their soils in vain.

1819 W. Scott Let. 23 Mar. (1933) V. 323 My veins have been sluiced so often that they give me pain in writing.

1892 Harper's Mag. Oct. 799/2 A project for sluicing the universities, called university extension.

b. Const. into (one or more streams, channels, etc.) or in. Also figurative.

ΚΠ

1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xii. lxxvii. 312 The once ship-bearing Ley, by Alfred slu'ste in Three.

1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell ix. 112 Germany..is like a great River sluced into sundry Channels.

1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar i. i. 7 Let Honour Call for my Bloud; and sluce it into streams.

1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 119 Where..the Tuscan tide Into th' Avernian friths is sluiced.

1856 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 10 May in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. iv. 11 Avenues by which the common-place world is sluiced in among the Highlands.

c. To drain of blood, to kill. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (transitive)]

swevec725

quelmeOE

slayc893

quelleOE

of-falleOE

ofslayeOE

aquellc950

ayeteeOE

spillc950

beliveOE

to bring (also do) of (one's) life-dayOE

fordoa1000

forfarea1000

asweveOE

drepeOE

forleseOE

martyrOE

to do (also i-do, draw) of lifeOE

bringc1175

off-quellc1175

quenchc1175

forswelta1225

adeadc1225

to bring of daysc1225

to do to deathc1225

to draw (a person) to deathc1225

murder?c1225

aslayc1275

forferec1275

to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275

martyrc1300

strangle1303

destroya1325

misdoa1325

killc1330

tailc1330

to take the life of (also fro)c1330

enda1340

to kill to (into, unto) death1362

brittena1375

deadc1374

to ding to deathc1380

mortifya1382

perisha1387

to dight to death1393

colea1400

fella1400

kill out (away, down, up)a1400

to slay up or downa1400

swelta1400

voida1400

deliverc1400

starvec1425

jugylc1440

morta1450

to bring to, on, or upon (one's) bierc1480

to put offc1485

to-slaya1500

to make away with1502

to put (a person or thing) to silencec1503

rida1513

to put downa1525

to hang out of the way1528

dispatch?1529

strikea1535

occidea1538

to firk to death, (out) of lifec1540

to fling to deathc1540

extinct1548

to make out of the way1551

to fet offa1556

to cut offc1565

to make away?1566

occise1575

spoil1578

senda1586

to put away1588

exanimate1593

unmortalize1593

speed1594

unlive1594

execute1597

dislive1598

extinguish1598

to lay along1599

to make hence1605

conclude1606

kill off1607

disanimate1609

feeze1609

to smite, stab in, under the fifth rib1611

to kill dead1615

transporta1616

spatch1616

to take off1619

mactate1623

to make meat of1632

to turn up1642

inanimate1647

pop1649

enecate1657

cadaverate1658

expedite1678

to make dog's meat of1679

to make mincemeat of1709

sluice1749

finisha1753

royna1770

still1778

do1780

deaden1807

deathifyc1810

to lay out1829

cool1833

to use up1833

puckeroo1840

to rub out1840

cadaverize1841

to put under the sod1847

suicide1852

outkill1860

to fix1875

to put under1879

corpse1884

stiffen1888

tip1891

to do away with1899

to take out1900

stretch1902

red-light1906

huff1919

to knock rotten1919

skittle1919

liquidate1924

clip1927

to set over1931

creasea1935

ice1941

lose1942

to put to sleep1942

zap1942

to take down1967

wax1968

trash1973

ace1975

1749 T. Smollett Regicide iv. ii. 49 To sluice them in th' unguarded Hour of Rest! Infernal Sacrifice!

a. To cast, fling, or pour (something) as if through a sluice.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > project through space > (as) a liquid

shoot1573

sluice1610

1610–11 J. Davies Paper's Compl. 20 in Wks. (Grosart) II. 75 What a dewce Meanst thou such filth in my white face to sluce?

1894 A. Morrison Tales Mean Streets 88 Profanity was sluiced down, as it were, by pailfuls.

b. Lumbering. To send or float (logs) down a sluice-way.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [verb (transitive)] > transport logs

swamp1784

boom1798

snake1829

sluice1877

water1877

skid1878

tode1895

1877 Lumberman's Gaz. 17 Nov. 309 The Chippewa will sluice down on the river mills at least 400,000,000 feet of logs.

1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 15 Oct. The last of the logs..will probably be sluiced through the dam some time this week.

c. Lumbering. To injure (a person) by the rush of logs over a slope through the breaking of the controlling hawser. U.S.

ΚΠ

1908 H. Day King Spruce xxvi He knew—that most terrible knowledge of all woods terrors—that he was ‘sluiced’.

a. To throw or pour water over (a person or thing); to swill with water, esp. in order to clean or wash; to flush or scour with a rush of water. Also, to fill with water.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action of flushing or swilling > flush or swill [verb (transitive)]

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sluice1755

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sloush1889

slooshy1907

sloosh1912

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > wash [verb (transitive)] > rinse

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(a)

1755 H. Walpole Lett. 19 Oct. (1840) III. 161 I have told you what I think ought to sluice my public eye; and your private eye too will moisten, when I tell you [etc.]

a1803 C. L. Lewes Mem. (1805) I. 26 He was (at the moment I sluiced him) either dosing or fast asleep.

1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 17 The ground spouts up water,..and..you get completely sluiced for curiosity and amusement.

1846 W. M. Thackeray Notes Journey Cornhill to Cairo xii. 198 Water so fresh..never sluiced parched throats before.

1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. xiii. 246 His neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water.

(b)1798 R. W. Miller in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. p. clvii I had the Ship completely sluiced, as one of our precautionary measures against fire.1831 Lincoln Herald 28 Oct. 2/4 On slusing Grimsby dock..the body..was found in the mud.1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour vii. xxxix. 213 Jack Horsehide, who, as usual, was sluicing the flags with water.1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon II. vii. 195 To scrub the pannikins, and sluice out the tubs with water.

b. slang. (See quots.)

ΚΠ

1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Sluice your Gob, take a hearty drink.

1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Sluicing one's bolt, drinking.

c. U.S. and Australian. To wash (auriferous ore) in a gold-miner's sluice. Also with out.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of emitting copiously > be emitted [verb (intransitive)]

yetOE

outstreama1275

waltc1400

outwellc1443

sluice1859

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > copiously or continuously

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outfloweOE

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waltc1400

outwellc1443

pour1538

outgush1558

gush1577

outpour1581

spew1670

well1812

sluice1859

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (reflexive)] > pour out

sluice1859

society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > wash or stream > for gold

rock1825

pan1832

cradle1852

puddle1852

sluice1859

to wash up1869

yandy1937

to rock out1966

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > copiously > in or as in a stream

runeOE

ayetOE

yetOE

hieldc1200

pourc1330

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wella1398

outyeta1400

wellc1400

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streama1425

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diffude?a1475

skail1513

peera1522

effuse1526

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spin1610

exfuse1612

guttera1618

effude1634

disembogue1641

profund1657

efflux1669

decant1742

profuse1771

sluice1859

1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 328 The St. Andrew's Mining and Sluicing Company.

1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 350 In sluicing out the ore now on hand.

1890 Goldfields of Victoria 7 The area of ground sluiced is much in excess of previous quarters.

5. intransitive. To flow or pour out or down as through a sluice. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > copiously

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bolkena1300

railc1390

gush?a1400

hella1400

walterc1400

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1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 30^v The siluer gates of the Temple..were..but slimie flood-gates for thicke iellied gore to sluce out by.

1834 W. S. Landor Citation & Exam. Shakespere in Wks. (1853) II. 292/1 I fear me, for once, all his wisdom would sluice out in vain.

1855 A. W. Cole Legends in Verse 3 The rain on the windows kept..Sluicing and dashing.

Derivatives

sluiced adj.

/sluːst/

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [adjective]

wetc900

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nesha1387

dank?a1400

watery?a1439

sappy?a1500

dankish1540

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humidious1630

uvid1656

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muggy1731

sockya1825

suckeny1878

1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 156 The other with a double-sluced eye Did sacrifice his teares.

ˈsluicing adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [adjective] > heavy

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1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxxii. 325 This here sluicing night is hard lines to a man as lives on his condition.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sluice
释义	sluicen. Brit. /sluːs/, U.S. /slus/ Forms: α. Middle English–1600s scluse, Middle English–1600s scluce, 1500s sklus. β. 1500s sleuss, sleuse, slewse, slowese. γ. 1500s Scottish slus, 1500s–1600s sluse, 1500s–1700s sluce. δ. 1500s sluyce, 1600s– sluice. Etymology: < Old French escluse (-clusse , -clouse , etc.; modern French écluse ), = Spanish esclusa , Portuguese esclusa , late and medieval Latin exclusa (also sclusa , etc.), feminine singular of Latin exclūsus , past participle of exclūdere to shut out, exclude v.Old French is also the source of Middle Dutch sluse , sluyse , sluus (Dutch sluis , West Frisian slús ), Middle Low German sluse , sluze (Low German slüse , slüs , German schleuse ), Danish sluse , Swedish slus . For the English forms which represent the late Latin clūsa see clow n.¹ The spelling with ui (compare juice) did not come into general use until the 18th century. 1. a. A structure of wood or masonry, a dam or embankment, for impounding the water of river, canal, etc., provided with an adjustable gate or gates by which the volume of water is regulated or controlled. Also, rarely, the body of water so impounded or controlled.falling sluice: see falling sluice n. at falling adj. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > gate, lock, or sluice hatchOE clowa1250 lock1261 water lock1261 sluice1340 water gate1390 sewer-gate1402 spay1415 floodgatec1440 shuttlec1440 spayer1450 gate1496 falling gate1524 spoye1528 gote1531 penstock1542 ventil1570 drawgate1587 flood-hatch1587 turnpike1623 slaker1664 lock gate1677 hatchway1705 flash1768 turnpike-lock1771 sluice-gate1781 pound-lock1783 stop-gate1790 buck gate1791 slacker1797 aboiteau1802 koker1814 guard-lock1815 falling sluice1819 lasher1840 fender1847 tailgate1875 weir-hatch1875 wicket1875 α. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 255 Zome uolk..byeþ ase þe melle wyþoute scluse þet alne-way went be þe yernynge of þe wetere. 1449 Rolls of Parl. V. 149/1 Geteys, Keyes, Scluces, Bankes, and other reparations. c1480 Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 76 To an scluse to be maade, or locke if þey will. 1558 Galway Arch. in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 388 The sklus or dame, besyde the said myll. 1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries iii. 107 Some of these souldiers..chose rather to leape from the scluse into the water. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxiv. i. 241 The scluces or floudgates made of stone worke, to let out or restraine the waters. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 245 Being brought within a Lock of the River or Scluse, near the Castle. β. 1533 MS. Rawl. D. 776 f. 175 Makyng of Certayne new slewssis vnder the kynges new whalke.1541–2 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 33 The maintenance..of other Clowes, sloweses, gettiez, gutters, goottes.1582 in Archaeologia 28 20 A sufficiente sleuss shalbe made for the water~course.?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 9 Whether the water be kept up by Art, in slewces.γ. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Emissarium, a sluse [1548 sluce].1568 Bannatyne MS. (Hunterian Club) 403 Ane sleiffull of slak that growis in the slus.1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 172^v Some greate streame.., which by Fludde or Sluse, may let in alwayes freshe water.1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. N8 The fresh and salt water would meete.., were it not kept asunder by a sluce.1648 J. Raymond Itinerary Voy. Italy 183 We went through nine..Machines not much unlike our Sluses, to keep up and let down the water.1695 M. Prior Ode after Queen's Death xxiii As Waters from her Sluces, flow'd Unbounded Sorrow from her Eyes.δ. 1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 148 A Pent and Sluyce hath been made, which both open the mouth, and scowre the bottome of the hauen.1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escluse, a Sluice, Floud-gate, or Water-gate.1699 S. Garth Dispensary i. 2 How from each sluice a briny Torrent pours.1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 189 It was necessary to set a great Number of Sluices to work.1785 J. Phillips Treat. Inland Navigation p. ix When the water is..like to over~flow.., they take care to open the sluices to convey it away.1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 78 A sluice was erected at Misterton to prevent the tides from flowing beyond that point.1879 H. Phillips Addit. Notes upon Coins 3 The citizens were prepared to open the sluices and dykes in order..to flood the country.in extended use.1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 97 The beavers always leave sluices, or passages near the middle, for the redundant waters to pass off. b. figurative or in figurative contexts. (Common in 17th cent.) ΚΠ singular. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 255 Ac þe wise zetteþ þe scluse of discrecion uor to of healde þet weter of fole wordes. 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 283 The number of them being verie small, who would not willingly make (as we say) a sluce to their consciences. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 29 His margent, which is the sluce most commonly, that feeds the drouth of his text. 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour v. i. 45 She's the very Sluce to her Lady's Secrets. 1778 F. Burney Evelina III. xiii. 132 I have..drained every sluice of compassion. 1806 M. L. Weems Life G. Washington (ed. 5) iii. 43 On receiving the ball which opened in his breast the crimson sluice of life. a1850 J. C. Calhoun Wks. (1874) IV. 63 If the sluice of expenditures was stopped in one place, it was sure to burst through another. plural.1578 T. Tymme tr. J. Calvin Comm. Genesis 32 If so be the sluses or floodgates of heaven were not shut.1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 402 Heare him..reckoning up the many Sluces of his Treasury.1672 J. Crowne Hist. Charles VIII i. 3 To my Window streight I did repair, And setting wide those sluces of the Air [etc.].1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. viii. 581 So from the sluices of Ulysses' eyes Fast fell the tears.1754 E. Young Centaur i, in Wks. (1757) IV. 111 Thus the sluices are set open for all sensuality..and studied arts of excess, to pour in un~controuled.1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire I. iii. 136 The execution of Lentulus and his associates would reopen the sluices of bloodshed. c. A paddle or slide in a gate or barrier by which water is held back. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > gate, lock, or sluice > paddle, slide, or door in sluice1601 valve1790 paddle1795 1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. iii. sig. F^v Haue I drawne the sluce Of life vp? and..set my prisoned soule at large? 1791 W. Jessop Rep. Navigation Thames 12 A Bar of Sand or Gravel, which is most easily to be removed by drawing the Sluices of the Lock. 1857 P. M. Colquhoun Compan. Oarsman's Guide 32 The sluices, otherwise called the paddles, are slides travelling in a slot or groove in the gate. d. A device by which the flow of water, esp. into or out of some receptacle, is regulated; a valve, pipe, etc., by which water may be let in or run off. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > tap > device controlling flow of water sluice1617 clow1820 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 137 The medicinall Baths..are shut up certaine howers of the day, that not man should enter them till by their sluces they be purged of all filth. c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 5 About 2 yards off the doore is severall pipes..that with a sluce spoutts water up. 1798 C. Hutton Course Math. II. 342 To determine the Time of emptying a Vessel of Water by a Sluice in the Bottom of it. 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1243 The cast~iron trough for the water is marked b, and the sluice, also of iron, c. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 79/2 Water was admitted by sluices into the caisson, which then sank. 2. A channel, drain, or small stream, esp. one carrying off overflow or surplus water. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > channel for conveyance of water > for surplus water sluicea1552 watershoot1599 offlet?1744 dale1851 waste-way1881 spill1900 a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 31 Ther goith a sluse out of this Bath, and servid in Tymes past with Water derivid out of it 2. Places in Bath Priorie. 1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course iv. f. 38^v Towards the South it is enuironed with the scluses of Nilus. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 8 A meare or fluxe of the Sea,..swelling in 100 armes or sluces. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 124 The little Streams and Sluices of Water. 1848 G. H. Boker Calaynos i. i Ere it flows Past the foul sluices that Seville outpours. 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 109 Oftentimes the current cuts out a deep ‘slough’, or sluice, within reach of high water mark... It forms a space of smooth water between the outer and inner breakers. in extended use.1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 7 While we have sluces of warm bloud running through our veines.1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 172 By those secret sluces or chanels in the air. †3. A gap, breach, opening, or hole; a gash or wound. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] holec725 thirla900 eyeOE opena1200 opening?c1225 overturec1400 overta1425 wideness?c1425 howe1487 hiatus1563 vent1594 apertion1599 ferme1612 notch1615 sluice1648 gape1658 aperture1661 want1664 door1665 hiulcitya1681 to pass through the eye of a needle (also a needle's eye)1720 vista1727 light1776 ope1832 lacuna1872 doughnut hole1886 the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > cut carfa1000 seamc1400 slapc1480 gap?a1500 gash1528 cut1530 scarification?1541 chopping1558 slash1580 slaughter1592 snip1600 hacka1610 sluice1648 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xi. 40 He made a sluce, or breach of halfe a league of length. 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs 187 ⁋250 Unlesse it were repelled out at another sluice or exit. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 39 The Lamprey hath seven holes or cavities..and no gills at all—these holes or sluces do indeed supply the defect of gills. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. i. ii. 9 Certain open Sluices on his own Head sufficiently shewed whence all the scarlet Stream had issued. †4. A drawbridge. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > moat > [noun] > draw-bridge bridgec1275 tu-brugge1297 draught-bridgec1330 draughtc1400 drawbridgec1400 flying bridge1489 pont-levis1489 trap-bridge1585 drawing bridge1591 sluice1642 pont tornerec1650 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > bridge > lifting-bridge > draw-bridge bridgec1275 tu-brugge1297 draught-bridgec1330 draughtc1400 drawbridgec1400 flying bridge1489 pont-levis1489 trap-bridge1585 drawing bridge1591 sluice1642 1642 Lanc. Tracts Civil War (Chetham Soc.) 22 The King swore he would..take the towne..; but Sir John Hotham drawing up the sluce, his Majesty retreated. 1654 Trag. Alphonsus iii. 43 Some run unto the Walls, some draw up the Sluce, Some speedily let the Purculless down. 5. In gold-washing: An artificial channel or flume, usually consisting of a long sloping trough, or series of troughs, fitted with riffles, or grooves, into which a current of water is directed in order to separate the particles of gold from the auriferous earth. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for washing ore > for gold scour1619 rocker1828 cradle1833 pan1835 Long Tom1839 Tom1839 wash-bowl1848 gold washer1849 sluice1851 wash-pan1851 tub1853 gold pan1854 mining pan1858 pan mill1869 Tommy1892 1851 San Francisco Picayune 14 Oct. 2/4 In the neighbourhood of Rough and Ready, a sluice of fourteen miles in length has been constructed. 1862 B. Taylor At Home & Abroad 2nd Ser. 144 The sand [is swept] into a long sluice. Here it is still further agitated by means of riffles [etc.]. 1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 70 The gold-saving method is the simplest— amalgamation in battery, copper-plate, riffle-boxes, and a tail sluice. 1882 Rep. Precious Metals (U.S. Bureau of Mint) i. 629 The sluices are several hundred and sometimes several thousand feet in length. Compounds C1. With names of things. sluice-block n. ΚΠ 1882 Rep. Precious Metals (U.S. Bureau of Mint) i. 101 They overhauled and refitted the flume, putting in new sluice-blocks. sluice-cock n. ΚΠ 1837 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 27/1 Certain improvements in the construction of Sluice Cocks for Water-works. sluice-door n. ΚΠ 1852 J. Wiggins Pract. Embanking Lands 87 Some difficulty may exist as to keeping open the sluice doors. sluice-house n. ΚΠ 1829 T. Hood Epping Hunt iv In a sluice-house box He took his pipe and pot. sluice-valve n. ΚΠ 1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. xi. 127 The water being conducted..through vertical sluice valves. sluice-work n. ΚΠ 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (at cited word) The level of the sluice-work. C2. sluice-fork n. a fork used to break up lumps of gravel in a gold-miner's sluice-box. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for washing ore > for gold > instruments for breaking up clay or gravel sluice-fork1856 harrow1869 1856 San Francisco Call 16 Dec. 4/2 As he went—took it puss'nal—it commenced raining ‘sluice-forks’. 1874 A. Bathgate Colonial Experiences viii. 92 The large stones..lifted out by hand..while the smaller ones are sometimes taken out with a long handled long pronged sluice-fork. 1909 H. Thompson in A. E. Currie Centennial Treasury of Otago Verse (1949) 59 Slinging stones out with his sluice-fork—what a pleasant little game. sluice-head n. originally U.S. a supply or head of water sufficient for flushing out a sluice; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > body or mass > sufficient for flushing out a sluice sluice-head1855 1855 Golden Era (San Francisco) 4 Mar. 1/6 At Eureka there are only twelve sluiceheads of water running. 1863 V. Pyke in App. Jrnls. House of Representatives N.Z. (3rd Sess. 3rd Parl.) D.–6. 15 Head races..represent about 200 sluice heads. ?a1880 G. L. Meredith Adventuring in Maoriland (1935) xiii. 145 The one we went to is just a boiling spring, running about five ‘sluice-heads’ of boiling water. 1901 E. Dyson in Austral. Short Stories (1951) 58 Mrs. Mooney..wept sluice-heads... She had been replenishing the fountain of tears with whisky. 1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 6 Jan. 12/3 Although little opened, the springs now have a flow of two sluice-heads. C3. With agent-nouns, etc., as sluice-keeper, sluice-maker, sluice-master; also sluice-employing adj. ΚΠ a1725 Ld. Whitworth Acc. Russia in 1710 in Dodsley Fug. Pieces (1761) II. 214 Contrary to the Opinion of all the Ship-Carpenters and Sluice-makers. 1780 Philos. Trans. 1779 (Royal Soc.) 69 622 Many sluice masters..are accustomed to shut their gates next the sea a little after half flood. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 142/1 Many self-acting sluices have been contrived..to save the expense of a sluice-keeper. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right II. xxvi. 265 The dams and water-races of the sluice-employing miner. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022). sluicev. Brit. /sluːs/, U.S. /slus/ Forms: 1500s–1600s sluce, 1500s–1600s (1800s) sluse, 1600s sluyce, 1700s– sluice. Etymology: < sluice n. Compare Old French escluser, Middle Dutch slusen, to shut in by, to provide with, a sluice. 1. a. transitive. To let out, to cause to flow out, by the opening of a sluice. Frequently figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > emit [verb (transitive)] > by the opening of a sluice sluice1597 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 103 I say..That he did plotte the Duke of Glocesters death,..And..like a t[r]aitour coward, Slucte out his innocent soule through streames of bloud. View more context for this quotation 1599 Warning for Faire Women sig. D2^v Then stand close George, and with a luckie arme, Sluce out his life. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 26 Every drop of it..sluced out from every part of his body. 1660 W. Secker Nonsuch Professor 6 You cannot..imagine that I should sluce out a bitter stream from so sweet a spring. 1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 257/1 It is proposed that this quantity of water shall be sluiced out through the great embankment. reflexive.a1861 A. H. Clough Dipsychus ii. iv, in Lett. & Remains (1865) 185 I must sluice out myself into canals, And lose all force in ducts. b. To let out or draw from some source or place in this manner. Usually in past participle. Frequently figurative. ΚΠ 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 57 More relishsome..then the nectarized Aqua cœlestis of water-mingled blood, sluced from Christs side. 1630 J. Taylor Wks. i. 2 The vnpolluted blood from him was sluc'de. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 702 Veins of liquid fire Sluc'd from the Lake. View more context for this quotation 1805–6 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Inferno vii. 106 A well That boiling pours itself down to a foss Sluiced from its source. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Recoll. Arab. Nights iii, in Poems 49 A broad canal From the main river sluiced. c. To lead or draw off by, or as by, a sluice. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > action or process of extracting > extract liquid [verb (transitive)] > by or as by a sluice sluice1594 sluice1753 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xv. 89 When a stream is sluiced off into several chanels [sic], there is the less fear that it will overflow its banks. 1790 W. Taylor Let. 14 May in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 68 The National Assembly,..whose pure streams..will soon be sluiced off into the other realms of Europe. 1846 N. Hawthorne Mosses ii. 125 He will not survive it above a month, unless his accumulation of ideas be sluiced off in some other way. 1869 Contemp. Rev. 11 170 By what other means..could so many members of the human family have been sluiced off..into those stagnant pools? 2. a. To draw off or let out water from (a pond, lake, etc.) by means of a sluice or sluices. Frequently figurative and transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > action or process of extracting > extract liquid [verb (transitive)] > by or as by a sluice sluice1594 sluice1753 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. J4^v If by rain..those ponds were so full they need to bee sluste or let out. 1697 W. Congreve Mourning Bride v. iii. 72 I'll sluce this Heart, The Source of Woe, and let the Torrent loose. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 52 Led by this arm thy sons shall hither come,..Nor sluice their lakes, nor form their soils in vain. 1819 W. Scott Let. 23 Mar. (1933) V. 323 My veins have been sluiced so often that they give me pain in writing. 1892 Harper's Mag. Oct. 799/2 A project for sluicing the universities, called university extension. b. Const. into (one or more streams, channels, etc.) or in. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xii. lxxvii. 312 The once ship-bearing Ley, by Alfred slu'ste in Three. 1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell ix. 112 Germany..is like a great River sluced into sundry Channels. 1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar i. i. 7 Let Honour Call for my Bloud; and sluce it into streams. 1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 119 Where..the Tuscan tide Into th' Avernian friths is sluiced. 1856 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 10 May in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. iv. 11 Avenues by which the common-place world is sluiced in among the Highlands. c. To drain of blood, to kill. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (transitive)] swevec725 quelmeOE slayc893 quelleOE of-falleOE ofslayeOE aquellc950 ayeteeOE spillc950 beliveOE to bring (also do) of (one's) life-dayOE fordoa1000 forfarea1000 asweveOE drepeOE forleseOE martyrOE to do (also i-do, draw) of lifeOE bringc1175 off-quellc1175 quenchc1175 forswelta1225 adeadc1225 to bring of daysc1225 to do to deathc1225 to draw (a person) to deathc1225 murder?c1225 aslayc1275 forferec1275 to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275 martyrc1300 strangle1303 destroya1325 misdoa1325 killc1330 tailc1330 to take the life of (also fro)c1330 enda1340 to kill to (into, unto) death1362 brittena1375 deadc1374 to ding to deathc1380 mortifya1382 perisha1387 to dight to death1393 colea1400 fella1400 kill out (away, down, up)a1400 to slay up or downa1400 swelta1400 voida1400 deliverc1400 starvec1425 jugylc1440 morta1450 to bring to, on, or upon (one's) bierc1480 to put offc1485 to-slaya1500 to make away with1502 to put (a person or thing) to silencec1503 rida1513 to put downa1525 to hang out of the way1528 dispatch?1529 strikea1535 occidea1538 to firk to death, (out) of lifec1540 to fling to deathc1540 extinct1548 to make out of the way1551 to fet offa1556 to cut offc1565 to make away?1566 occise1575 spoil1578 senda1586 to put away1588 exanimate1593 unmortalize1593 speed1594 unlive1594 execute1597 dislive1598 extinguish1598 to lay along1599 to make hence1605 conclude1606 kill off1607 disanimate1609 feeze1609 to smite, stab in, under the fifth rib1611 to kill dead1615 transporta1616 spatch1616 to take off1619 mactate1623 to make meat of1632 to turn up1642 inanimate1647 pop1649 enecate1657 cadaverate1658 expedite1678 to make dog's meat of1679 to make mincemeat of1709 sluice1749 finisha1753 royna1770 still1778 do1780 deaden1807 deathifyc1810 to lay out1829 cool1833 to use up1833 puckeroo1840 to rub out1840 cadaverize1841 to put under the sod1847 suicide1852 outkill1860 to fix1875 to put under1879 corpse1884 stiffen1888 tip1891 to do away with1899 to take out1900 stretch1902 red-light1906 huff1919 to knock rotten1919 skittle1919 liquidate1924 clip1927 to set over1931 creasea1935 ice1941 lose1942 to put to sleep1942 zap1942 hit1955 to take down1967 wax1968 trash1973 ace1975 1749 T. Smollett Regicide iv. ii. 49 To sluice them in th' unguarded Hour of Rest! Infernal Sacrifice! 3. a. To cast, fling, or pour (something) as if through a sluice. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > project through space > (as) a liquid shoot1573 sluice1610 1610–11 J. Davies Paper's Compl. 20 in Wks. (Grosart) II. 75 What a dewce Meanst thou such filth in my white face to sluce? 1894 A. Morrison Tales Mean Streets 88 Profanity was sluiced down, as it were, by pailfuls. b. Lumbering. To send or float (logs) down a sluice-way. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [verb (transitive)] > transport logs swamp1784 boom1798 snake1829 sluice1877 water1877 skid1878 tode1895 1877 Lumberman's Gaz. 17 Nov. 309 The Chippewa will sluice down on the river mills at least 400,000,000 feet of logs. 1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 15 Oct. The last of the logs..will probably be sluiced through the dam some time this week. c. Lumbering. To injure (a person) by the rush of logs over a slope through the breaking of the controlling hawser. U.S. ΚΠ 1908 H. Day King Spruce xxvi He knew—that most terrible knowledge of all woods terrors—that he was ‘sluiced’. 4. a. To throw or pour water over (a person or thing); to swill with water, esp. in order to clean or wash; to flush or scour with a rush of water. Also, to fill with water. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action of flushing or swilling > flush or swill [verb (transitive)] swillc725 berinsea1618 sluice1755 flush1862 sloush1889 slooshy1907 sloosh1912 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > wash [verb (transitive)] > rinse sinda1350 spoil1480 rinsec1500 slouse1726 sluice1755 sozzle1845 slush1854 to wash out1876 sloush1889 wash1894 slooshy1907 sloosh1912 (a) 1755 H. Walpole Lett. 19 Oct. (1840) III. 161 I have told you what I think ought to sluice my public eye; and your private eye too will moisten, when I tell you [etc.] a1803 C. L. Lewes Mem. (1805) I. 26 He was (at the moment I sluiced him) either dosing or fast asleep. 1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 17 The ground spouts up water,..and..you get completely sluiced for curiosity and amusement. 1846 W. M. Thackeray Notes Journey Cornhill to Cairo xii. 198 Water so fresh..never sluiced parched throats before. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. xiii. 246 His neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. (b)1798 R. W. Miller in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. p. clvii I had the Ship completely sluiced, as one of our precautionary measures against fire.1831 Lincoln Herald 28 Oct. 2/4 On slusing Grimsby dock..the body..was found in the mud.1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour vii. xxxix. 213 Jack Horsehide, who, as usual, was sluicing the flags with water.1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon II. vii. 195 To scrub the pannikins, and sluice out the tubs with water. b. slang. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Sluice your Gob, take a hearty drink. 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Sluicing one's bolt, drinking. c. U.S. and Australian. To wash (auriferous ore) in a gold-miner's sluice. Also with out. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of emitting copiously > be emitted [verb (intransitive)] yetOE outstreama1275 waltc1400 outwellc1443 sluice1859 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > copiously or continuously flowc825 outfloweOE outstreama1275 streama1300 boilc1300 welta1400 buschc1400 waltc1400 outwellc1443 pour1538 outgush1558 gush1577 outpour1581 spew1670 well1812 sluice1859 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (reflexive)] > pour out sluice1859 society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > wash or stream > for gold rock1825 pan1832 cradle1852 puddle1852 sluice1859 to wash up1869 yandy1937 to rock out1966 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > copiously > in or as in a stream runeOE ayetOE yetOE hieldc1200 pourc1330 bleed1377 spouta1398 wella1398 outyeta1400 wellc1400 effundc1420 streama1425 shed1430 diffude?a1475 skail1513 peera1522 effuse1526 diffuse1541 flow1550 gusha1555 outpoura1560 brew1581 outwell1590 spend1602 spin1610 exfuse1612 guttera1618 effude1634 disembogue1641 profund1657 efflux1669 decant1742 profuse1771 sluice1859 1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 328 The St. Andrew's Mining and Sluicing Company. 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 350 In sluicing out the ore now on hand. 1890 Goldfields of Victoria 7 The area of ground sluiced is much in excess of previous quarters. 5. intransitive. To flow or pour out or down as through a sluice. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > copiously wallc893 bolkena1300 railc1390 gush?a1400 hella1400 walterc1400 yraylle1426 downpoura1522 pour1538 bolk1541 flush1548 sluice1593 teem1753 flux1823 swill1884 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 30^v The siluer gates of the Temple..were..but slimie flood-gates for thicke iellied gore to sluce out by. 1834 W. S. Landor Citation & Exam. Shakespere in Wks. (1853) II. 292/1 I fear me, for once, all his wisdom would sluice out in vain. 1855 A. W. Cole Legends in Verse 3 The rain on the windows kept..Sluicing and dashing. Derivatives sluiced adj. /sluːst/ ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [adjective] wetc900 moisty1386 nesha1387 dank?a1400 watery?a1439 sappy?a1500 dankish1540 spongy1600 sluiced1607 madid1615 humidious1630 uvid1656 madent1727 muggy1731 sockya1825 suckeny1878 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 156 The other with a double-sluced eye Did sacrifice his teares. ˈsluicing adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [adjective] > heavy steepc1330 pissingc1475 thightc1480 pouring1577 pashing1581 sad1590 steep-down1601 solid1621 even down1622 sluicy1697 pelting1710 buck1732 steeping1774 peppering1827 sluicing1847 torrential1849 peltering1858 plumping1879 teeming1880 lashing1885 monsoonish1886 sheeting1940 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxxii. 325 This here sluicing night is hard lines to a man as lives on his condition. 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