Thesaurus / sluice
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Far upstream, one of the power companies has opened the dam’s sluices.
A PADDLEBOARD ADVENTURE TO CLIMB IN SPAIN’S MONT-REBEI GORGEPOM ADMINISTRATORJULY 29, 2022OUTSIDE ONLINEEven if farmers smooth over the top of the soil, underground rubble can act like a barrier or sluice for water, which could make it harder to grow crops.
RUSSIA’S INVASION COULD CAUSE LONG-TERM HARM TO UKRAINE’S PRIZED SOILREBECCA DZOMBAKJUNE 21, 2022SCIENCE NEWSThey had aided in opening the sluice-ways of a torrent which was now sweeping every thing before it.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTThey died because they refused to open those sluice-ways of blood which the people demanded.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTHe finished his strictly utilitarian household labor and went off up the flat to the sluice boxes.
CABIN FEVERB. M. BOWERIn a few minutes Uncle Will released him and sent him back to help Lucky at the sluice.
GOLD-SEEKING ON THE DALTON TRAILARTHUR R. THOMPSONOnce I saw a catfish, gasping for air at the surface of water that had been muddied by the opening of a sluice-way in a dam.
BILL'S SCHOOL AND MINEWILLIAM SUDDARDS FRANKLINBy the sluice provision, again, the water could at any time be discharged, even before it reached nearly so high a point.
CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL, NO. 440VARIOUSThe water dripped over the wheel, and long green beard trailed from its chin down the sluice.
LAZARREMARY HARTWELL CATHERWOODOnly his horror of the fatal exit, the raving sluice, the swaying white spray-curtain, retained its keenness.
THE BACKWOODSMENCHARLES G. D. ROBERTSWORDS RELATED TO SLUICE
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