Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense sluices, present participle sluicing, past tense, past participle sluiced
1N-COUNT (设有可开启和关闭的水闸的)泄洪道,泄水道 A sluice is a passage that carries a current of water and has a barrier, called a sluice gate, which can be opened and closed to control the flow of water. (设有可开启和关闭的水闸的)泄洪道,泄水道
2VERB 冲洗 If you sluice something or sluice it down or out, you wash it with a stream of water. 冲洗
He sluiced the bath and filled it. [VERB noun]
他冲洗了浴缸,然后放满了一缸水。
Ten minutes later we were sluicing off dust at the fountain in the town centre. [VERB noun with adv.]