4. (Mining) 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.
Sluice"way` (?), n. An artificial channel into which water is let by a
sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so
that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient
place of delivery.
Slui`cy (?), a. Falling copiously or in streams, as from a sluice.
And oft whole sheets descend of sluicy rain.
Dryden.
Slum (?), n. [CF. Slump, n.] 1. A foul back street of a city,
especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious
population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the
plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives. Dickens.