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sluice
noun
1. A body of water impounded behind a floodgate.
2. A long inclined trough, as for carrying logs or separating gold ore.
3. A sluiceway.
4. A valve or gate used in such a channel; a floodgate: open sluices to flood a dry dock. Also called sluice gate.
5. An artificial channel for conducting water, with a valve or gate to regulate the flow: sluices connecting a reservoir with irrigated fields.
verb
1. To draw off by or through a sluice.
2. To wash with or in water running through or from a sluice.
3. To drench with a sudden flow .
4. To transport (as logs) in a sluice.
5. To pour as if from a sluice.
verb-intransitive
1. To flow out from or as if from a sluice.
verb-transitive
1. To draw off or let out by a sluice: sluice floodwater.
2. To flood or drench with or as if with a flow of released water.
3. To send (logs, for example) down a sluice.
4. To wash with water flowing in a sluice: sluicing sediment for gold.
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Top Words by points |
Points |
Word Game |
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sluice | 8 |
Scrabble |
2 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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si | 2 |
li | 2 |
is | 2 |
es | 2 |
el | 2 |
us | 2 |
3 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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sel | 3 |
sei | 3 |
sec | 5 |
lie | 3 |
sic | 5 |
sue | 3 |
lis | 3 |
cel | 5 |
leu | 3 |
lei | 3 |
use | 3 |
cis | 5 |
ice | 5 |
els | 3 |
ecu | 5 |
cue | 5 |
4 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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slue | 4 |
sice | 6 |
ceil | 6 |
cels | 6 |
clue | 6 |
cues | 6 |
isle | 4 |
lues | 4 |
luce | 6 |
lieu | 4 |
lies | 4 |
lice | 6 |
leis | 4 |
ecus | 6 |
ices | 6 |
5 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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sulci | 7 |
slice | 7 |
luces | 7 |
ceils | 7 |
clues | 7 |
lieus | 5 |
ileus | 5 |
6 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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sluice | 8 |