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Sluice meaning
An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow. | A water gate or floodgate. | Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
Example sentences (20)
Dustin has dredged two feet down and pumped 15 yards of gravel through the sluice box, and Carlos is geeking out at what he thinks might be gold sitting in the sluice box.
Similar attacks have threatened other water systems, including an Iranian attack on a New York dam in 2016, in which hackers tried but failed to take control of a sluice gate.
The fire also caused a power outage in the sluice gates of Bristol Harbour, which if they had failed could have caused “catastrophic damage” to the harbour walls, Mr Gordon said.
A subsequent investigation by the Environment Agency revealed a significant delay—two and a half hours—in closing one of the sluice gates.
It was reported that rolls of disposable blue catering aprons worn by staff during food preparation were stored in a sluice room and exposed to "soiled linen" which was processed in the same space, risking contamination.
Similarly, all sluice gates of Ban Sujara dam have been opened releasing 480 cusec water in Dhasan river of Tikamgarh district.
A Bull Sluice Lake kayak launch and Morgan Falls boat ramp would be two of the 43 water access points along the RiverLands trail.
The squat lobster was collected from a sluice gate at the Okinawa Prefecture Deep Sea Water Research Center on the shore of Kume Island in February 2009 and January 2011.
A large number of guns were discovered by police divers in Grey Lake at Kingsweston Sluice following a search after a man who had been magnet fishing found 20-30 parts of rusted firearms.
Sambalpur: The Hirakud Dam released the season’s first flood water from the reservoir today at around 12 noon by first opening sluice gate no 7, following a puja at the dam’s site.
Thin cracks have reportedly appeared on the bridge which holds the sluice gates of the Udawalawa reservoir while as a result heavy vehicle have currently been restricted from using the bridge.
A second sluice was put in on the west side of the dam, about convert above the base.
Even when the source material lacks sufficient elevation, it can be elevated to the sluice by a dredge pump.
Groups of prospectors would divert the water from an entire river into a sluice alongside the river, and then dig for gold in the newly exposed river bottom.
In the most complex placer mining, groups of prospectors would divert the water from an entire river into a sluice alongside the river, and then dig for gold in the newly exposed river bottom.
Large complexes consisting of several pens separated by a series of bund walls and sluice gates were built to contain the oysters at varying stages of growth.
Processing of placer ore material consists of gravity-dependent methods of separation, such as sluice boxes.
The village has a basin for small yachts and fishing boats, which fills at high tide and can be emptied through a sluice at low tide.
They are constructed with hinged sluice gates that open on the falling tide to drain freshwater from the agricultural marshlands, and close on the rising tide to prevent seawater from entering behind the dyke.
When conditions in the River Parrett are suitable, the moor can be deliberately flooded in winter by opening a sluice in the river's floodbank.