Sluice, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Sluiced (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Sluicing (?).] 1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates. Milton.
2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt.
He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. De Quincey.
3. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.