Meanings (ES + gloss)
aguatocho • compuerta (sluicegate) • esclusa • presa
An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
embalsar
To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
Nigh on the plain, in many cells prepared, / That underneath had veins of liquid fire / Sluiced from the lake, a second multitude / With wondrous art founded the massy ore, / Sever…
lavar en agua corriente
To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining
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