See sluice on Wiktionary
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[…], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 700–704:", "text": "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, / Severing each kind, and scummed the bullion-dross.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To emit by, or as by, flood gates." ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates." ], "tags": [ "rare", "transitive" ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations", "English transitive verbs", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1855, William Howitt, Land, Labour and Gold; or, Two Years in Victoria:", "text": "Nine - mile Creek has been dug out again and again , and has been sluiced three times", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1861, Thomas Hughes, chapter XIII, in Tom Brown at Oxford, London: Macmillan & Co.:", "text": "[…] he dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1993, Paul Theroux, Millroy the Magician, page 61:", "text": "Millroy often described his kidneys—how he flushed them out. His lungs—the way he hyperventilated them. His heart—how he got it pumping, sluicing its gates and chambers.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2000, Laurel E. Fay, chapter 7, in Shostakovich: A Life, Oxford University Press, page 120:", "text": "Many years later, in 1953, Shostakovich summarized his dissatisfactions with the competition more bluntly: \"Rimsky-Korsakov groomed, waved, and sluiced Musorgsky with eau de cologne. My orchestration is crude, in keeping with Musorgsky.\"", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice" ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice" ], "tags": [ "transitive" ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with usage examples", "English transitive verbs" ], "examples": [ { "text": "to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice." ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice." ], "tags": [ "transitive" ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations", "English transitive verbs" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene 1]:", "text": "[…] he did plot the Duke of Gloucester's death, / Suggest his soon-believing adversaries, / And consequently, like a traitor coward, / Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1910, Lord Dunsany, “Bethmoora”, in A Dreamer's Tales, London: George Allen & Sons, page 68:", "text": "And now men with a hose have come and are sluicing out the streets.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1977, Timothy Findley, The Wars, Penguin Canada, published 1985, page 60:", "text": "He also organized a bucket brigade for sluicing down the decks.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To wash (down or out)." ], "links": [ [ "wash", "wash" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out)." ], "tags": [ "broadly", "transitive" ] }, { "categories": [ "English intransitive verbs", "English terms with quotations", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1932, Robinson Jeffers, “Thurso's Landing”, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, New York: Random House, page 311:", "text": "In the trough behind the white wave / Helen shook her dark head, the water sluiced from her shoulders / And rose-tipped breasts.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1934, George Orwell, chapter 23, in Burmese Days:", "text": "Out of sight of the houses he took off his clothes and let the rain sluice down on his bare body.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1980, Peter De Vries, chapter 12, in Consenting Adults, or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Penguin, pages 185–6:", "text": "these are often my thoughts as my partner or my vis-a-vis spoons a berry into her mouth and I imagine it—see and hear it being chewed, the red juice running from its bursting pulp over her tongue, mingling with her saliva, slipping through the crevices between her teeth before sluicing down her throat and into her bloodstream.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1986, Tanith Lee, Delirium's Mistress, New York: Daw Books, Book Two, Part Two, Chapter 6, p. 240:", "text": "The huge things which had already careered into flight, they were enormous slothful sacks of billowing skin, and where the light sluiced over their bodies, they glimmered acid-blue and bronze.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To flow, pour." ], "links": [ [ "flow", "flow" ], [ "pour", "pour" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(intransitive) To flow, pour." ], "tags": [ "intransitive" ] }, { "categories": [ "en:Linguistics" ], "glosses": [ "To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing." ], "links": [ [ "linguistics", "linguistics" ], [ "wh-question", "wh-question" ], [ "sluicing", "sluicing#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(linguistics) To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing." ], "topics": [ "human-sciences", "linguistics", "sciences" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/sluːs/" }, { "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sluice.wav", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ad/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sluice.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sluice.wav.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ad/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sluice.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sluice.wav.ogg" }, { "ipa": "/ˈslʉs/", "tags": [ "Northern-Ireland", "Scotland" ] }, { "ipa": "/sljuːs/", "tags": [ "obsolete" ] }, { "rhymes": "-uːs" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to emit by flood gates", "word": "juoksuttaa tulvaluukkujen kautta" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "to emit by flood gates", "word": "embalsar" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "oblivam", "sense": "to wet copiously", "word": "обливам" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "to wet copiously", "word": "tulvittaa" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "to wet copiously", "word": "allagare" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "to wet copiously", "word": "inondare" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "to wet copiously", "word": "intridere" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "to wet copiously", "word": "bagnare" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "promivam", "sense": "to wash in water running through a sluice", "word": "промивам" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "raw_tags": [ "of gold washing" ], "sense": "to wash in water running through a sluice", "tags": [ "especially" ], "word": "rännittää" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "to wash in water running through a sluice", "word": "lavare" }, { "code": "mi", "lang": "Maori", "sense": "to wash in water running through a sluice", "word": "horoi tuakirikiri" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "to wash in water running through a sluice", "word": "lavar en agua corriente" } ], "wikipedia": [ "sluice" ], "word": "sluice" }
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