sluice

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.

At leaſt, I'm ſure I can fiſh it out of her. She's the very Sluce to her Lady's Secrets;—'Tis but ſetting her Mill agoing, and I can drein her of 'em all.

Each sluice of affluent fortune open'd soon.

The stream flowing through a floodgate.

A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.

To emit by, or as by, flood gates.

Nigh on the plain, in many cells prepared, / That underneath had veins of liquid fire / Sluiced from the lake, a second multitude / With wondrous art founded the massy ore, / Severing each kind, and scummed the bullion-dross.

To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice

Nine - mile Creek has been dug out again and again , and has been sluiced three times

[…] he dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water.

To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.

to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining

To wash (down or out).

[…] he did plot the Duke of Gloucester's death, / Suggest his soon-believing adversaries, / And consequently, like a traitor coward, / Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood

And now men with a hose have come and are sluicing out the streets.

To flow, pour.

In the trough behind the white wave / Helen shook her dark head, the water sluiced from her shoulders / And rose-tipped breasts.

Out of sight of the houses he took off his clothes and let the rain sluice down on his bare body.