Sluice

(noun.) conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate.

(verb.) irrigate with water from a sluice; 'sluice the earth'.

(verb.) draw through a sluice; 'sluice water'.

(verb.) transport in or send down a sluice; 'sluice logs'.

(verb.) pour as if from a sluice; 'An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef'.

手打:洛葛仙妮

• She sat down among the roots of the alder tree, dim and veiled, hearing the sound of the sluice like dew distilling audibly into the night. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• At the head of the steps was the lock of the sluice-gate. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He found a considerable quantity in the sluice-boxes of the Cherokee Valley Mining Company; but just then he found also that fruit-gardening was the thing, and dropped the subject. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• On Sundays he mostly lay all day on the sluice-gates, or stood against ricks and barns. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Thus Trabb's boy became their guide, and with him they went out to the sluice-house, though by the town way to the marshes, which I had avoided. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I knew very well, however, that the appointed place was the little sluice-house by the limekiln on the marshes, and the hour nine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• In a little while we had shut the door of the dark and empty sluice-house, and were passing through the quarry on our way back. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• But Alva, when he had read these documents, did not wait for the opening of any more sluices. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

整理:斯特拉