sluice
noun/sluːs/
/sluːs/
(also sluice gate)
- a sliding gate or other device for controlling the flow of water out of or into a canal, etc.
- We opened the sluices and the upstream water of the river poured into the lock.
Oxford Collocations DictionarySluice is used before these nouns:- gate
Word OriginMiddle English (as a noun): from Old French escluse ‘sluice gate’, based on Latin excludere ‘exclude’. The verb dates from the late 16th cent.
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