English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of sluice

sluice

/noun/ जलद्वार; जलमार्ग; पानी निकालने का फाटक; मोरी; स्लूस; कुलाबा;
/verb/वेगशील धारा में निकालना; मूसलधार बरसना;

Synonym penstock; sluice gate; sluiceway; drain; crampon;

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English Dictionary:

1. 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.
- 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.

2. Sluice

[v. t.]

- 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.