sluice

n. மதகு, வாய்மடை, கண்மாய், மதகு வருநீர், மதகு வடிநீர், கண்மாய் வருகால், கண்மாய் மறிகால், வாய்க்கால், தூம்புவாய்க்கால், கட்டு நீரோடை, அலம்பீடு, (வினை.) மதகு அமை, வாய்மடை, வகுத்தமை, மதகுநீர்த்தேக்கு, மதகிலிருந்து வௌ஢ளம் பெருகச்செய், அலம்பு, மீதாக நீர்பாய்ச்சு, தூம்புநீர்பீற்று, வௌ஢ளத்தின் வகையில் பீறிப்பாய்வுறு.

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Sluice, n. Etym: [OF. escluse, F. écluse, LL. exclusa, sclusa, from L. excludere, exclusum, to shut out: cf. D. sluis sluice, from the Old French. See Exclude.] 1. 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 of flood gate. 2. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon. Harte. This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of sensibility. I. Taylor. 3. The stream flowing through a flood gate. 4. (Mining) Defn: A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth. Sluice gate, the sliding gate of a sluice. Sluice, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sluiced; p. pr. & vb. n. Sluicing.] 1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates. [R.] Milton. 2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt. He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. De Quincey. 3. 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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