SLUICING
11
Scrabble
16
WWF
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NWL/TWL ✓ Collins ✓ WWF ✓
Definition
verb
- To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice“to sluice meadows”
- To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
noun
- The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.
- A kind of ellipsis, introduced by an interrogative, where (usually) everything except the interrogative is elided from the clause, as in "I like him, but I don't know why".
Source: Wiktionary
