Sluice
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Sluice
... 5. (vt) To emit by, or as by, flood gates. 6. (vt) To wet copiously, as
by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. 7. (vt) To wash ...
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Trunk (3 Occurrences)
... of a traveler. 10. (n.) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from
the slimes in which they are contained. 11. (n.) A large ...
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Hatch (3 Occurrences)
... upper edge. 10. (n.) A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish. 11.
(n.) A flood gate; a sluice gate. 12. (n.) A bedstead. 13. (n ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.

2. (n.) Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.

3. (n.) The stream flowing through a flood gate.

4. (n.) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.

5. (v. t.) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.

6. (v. t.) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.

7. (v. t.) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice earth or gold dust in mining.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
SLUICE

sloos (sekher, literally, "hire"): In Isaiah 19:10, the King James Version reads, "all that make sluices and ponds for fish." the Revised Version (British and American) entirely alters the translation of the whole verse. It reads, "And the pillars of Egypt shall be broken in pieces; all they that work for hire (margin "that make dams") shall be grieved in soul."

Strong's Hebrew
699. arubbah -- a lattice, window, sluice
... 698, 699. arubbah. 700 . a lattice, window, sluice. Transliteration: arubbah
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-oob-baw') Short Definition: windows. ...
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The Universal Gift
... which these things but symbolised is permanent; and we are not to think of Pentecost
as if it were a sudden gush from a great reservoir, and the sluice was let ...
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The Spokesman of God.
... You can sense and feel and love. You can open the sluice-gates into your heart,
and have the blessed flood-tide lift and lift and bear you aloft and along. ...
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September the Second Prayer and Revolution
... "Prayer," said Tennyson, "opens the sluice-gates between us and the Infinite."
It brings the frail wire into contact with the battery. ...
/.../my daily meditation for the circling year/september the second prayer and.htm

A Difficult Crossing
... to a considerable depth. And this in many parts ran over the causeway
with the swiftness and violence of a sluice. Once my mare ...
/.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/a difficult crossing.htm

The Charge to the Soldier of the Lord
... a sin. Then the amount of strength that we possess and wield is regulated
by ourselves. We have our hands on the sluice. We may ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/the charge to the soldier.htm

"For what the Law could not Do, in that it was Weak through the ...
... Christ's human nature, it was a great presumption to the world, who look and judge
according to the outward appearance, that sin was the sluice opened to let ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon x for what the.htm

Secret Faults
... He does not know that the great current of his life has been turned aside, as it
were, by that sluice, and is taken to drive the wheels of his mill, and that ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture j/secret faults.htm

Camp-Meetings in Various States
... She bounded out of bed and went running through the house, saying that God had healed
her and that a sluice of praise was going through her soul. ...
/.../cole/trials and triumphs of faith/chapter xxi camp-meetings in various.htm

Drill and Enthusiasm
... There are too few wheels for the quantity of water in the river, and, partly for
that reason, the amount of water that runs waste over the sluice is deplorable ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/drill and enthusiasm.htm

"And if Christ be in You, the Body is Dead Because of Sin: but the ...
... Though it be true that sin was the first inlet of death, that it first opened the
sluice to let it enter and flow in upon mankind, yet that appointment of ...
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