0 past simple and past participle of sluice
1 If water sluices out from somewhere, it flows in large amounts:
Water sluiced out from the pipes.
The tunnel was driven through a mountain spur in a horseshoe bend, diverting the river, and allowing the exposed river bed to be sluiced for alluvial gold.
U was then sluiced off the top layers.
Borrow pits containing suitable material are accessible at an elevation such that the earth can be sluiced to the fill after being washed from the bank by high-pressure nozzles.
Both the antecedent and the sluiced material qualify as catenae.
The amount of soil sluiced away in this way seems incredible.
The examples of sluicing above have the sluiced material following its antecedent.
The tunnel was driven through the spur diverting the river and allowing the exposed river bed to be sluiced for alluvial gold.
The 50 m cutting diverts a length of the river and allowed the exposed river bed to be sluiced for alluvial gold.
