Crossword-Solution: SLUICE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sluice | n. | 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. |
| Sluice | n. | Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. |
| Sluice | n. | The stream flowing through a flood gate. |
| Sluice | n. | A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth. |
| Sluice | v. t. | To emit by, or as by, flood gates. |
| Sluice | v. t. | To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. |
| Sluice | v. t. | 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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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SLUICE (5)
All of a sudden the lightning let go a perfect sluice of white glare, and somebody sings out: “By the living jingo, here’s the bag of gold on his breast!” Hines let out a whoop, like everybody else, and dropped my wrist and give a big surge to bust his way in and get a look, and the way I lit out and shinned for the road in the dark there ain’t nobody can tell.
They went through the front garden, over the sluice, and up the steep bank to the pond, which lay in shadow, with its two wooded islets.
With two to feed its sateless greed, it worked for seven score, And I sighed: "Ah, old-time miner, here's your doom!" The idle windlass turns to rust; the sagging sluice-box falls; The holes you digged are water to the brim; Your little sod-roofed cabins with the snugly moss-chinked walls Are deathly now and mouldering and dim.
However, like an opened sluice-gate, the extending flanks of the entrance of the corral slowly engulfed the herd.
They bought Hairlene, an' Thatchem, an' Jay's Capillery Juice, An' Seven Something Sisters, an' Macassar an' Bay Rum, An' everyone insisted on his speshul right to sluice His speshul line of lotion onto Chewed-ear's cranium.
Quotes with SLUICE (3)
An old Russian folk song is like water held back by a dam. It looks as if it were still and were no longer flowing, but in its depths it is ceaselessly rushing through the sluice gates and the stillness of its surface is deceptive. By every possible means, by repetitions and similes, the song slows down the gradual unfolding of its theme. Then at some point it suddenly reveals itself and astounds us. That is how the song’s sorrowing spirit comes to expression. The song is an …
There were things hiding inside of her I wasn’t equipped to see and this collapse ripped her open to me. I searched her cavities for symbols that would betray her true nature, but found nothing I could read, just a vast absence containing her poverty of morals. I should’ve known, the need for my presence in her life was never love, only a sluice of goodness she would let flood the gulley of her body when she needed to appear human.
The Knowing Afterwards, when we have slept, paradise- comaed and woken, we lie a long time looking at each other. I do not know what he sees, but I see eyes of surpassing tenderness and calm, a calm like the dignity of matter. I love the open ocean blue-grey-green of his iris, I love the curve of it against the white, that curve the sight of what has caused me to come, when he’s quite still, deep inside me. I have never seen a curve like that, except the earth from outer spac…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 31 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).