sluice
قناة لجر المياه
definition
verb
she sluiced her face in cold water
wash or rinse freely with a stream or shower of water.
noun
The sluice gate regulates the volume of water that strikes the wheel, and has to be judged with some care to prevent the mill stones from spinning too fast and vibrating too much.
a sliding gate or other device for controlling the flow of water, especially one in a lock gate.
a sluice with cold water
an act of rinsing or showering with water.
translation of 'sluice'
verb
صرف المياه,
غسل بالمياه,
حجز الماء,
روى,
غمر,
حجز المياه
noun
قناة مياه,
محور ينظم جريان المياه,
صمام,
سد ذو بوابة,
قناة لجر المياه,
هويس القناة,
بوابة للتحكم بتدفق المياه
example
a 'sluice' with cold water
We still use it for watering the garden and I have been known to 'sluice' the back of my neck under it on a hot afternoon (not often this summer).
He even made a 'sluice' of tin and boards to catch and carry the rainwater to the parched crops.
This had caused levels in the lodge to fluctuate and water had to be diverted from the stream via a 'sluice' .
In the cage, I could hear only the 'sluice' and swoosh of rushing and retreating water.
I can't cite any similar highhandness on Woodward's part, nor is he the sort to 'sluice' the words of authorities directly into his journalism.
This large drain runs straight in a North Easterly direction, under various bridges, the Well Creek, eventually ending at a 'sluice' which separates the fresh water from the salt water of the Tidal Ouse.
Huge mounds of river rock stand with great hubris along the creek banks, remnants of the exhaustive 'sluice' and placer mining operations that once took place on the town's perimeter.
Gravels were added to a 'sluice' box, and gravity-sorting concentrated the gold.
She stopped, staring, as several score thoughts and fears, feelings and emotions kicked her in the tail, clenching her gut and sending a 'sluice' of cold water down her spine.
a 'sluice' with cold water
Especially as it said that in case of contact with the mucous membrane - that's another expression to make us girls feel good about ourselves - you're supposed to 'sluice' yourself down right away with lots of water.
Having left my shoes outside at the reception desk I was given a locker for my clothes and belongings, before being ushered by the receptionist into the shower room for a thorough 'sluice' down and then put into a steam room for 15 minutes.
Then 'sluice' everything down with a coffee tarek.
He could hear Joe working the handle of the 'sluice' that would send water gushing into the other troughs.
They have 1.7 grams after two programmes out of six which seems reasonable bearing in mind that they also have some left not weighed in the fibrous material they use to catch the gold particles from their 'sluice' .
Water was pumped by an old fire-engine from the creek to the quarry to 'sluice' clay off the stone.
If rain falls into the bird's mouth, theoretically it could 'sluice' down the windpipe past the larynx and into the lungs.
Dozens of small balsa-wood structures were scattered on the cement floor, both within and outside the ambit of a crude wooden 'sluice' system that carried a fitfully circulating trickle of water.
The 'sluice gate' regulates the volume of water that strikes the wheel, and has to be judged with some care to prevent the mill stones from spinning too fast and vibrating too much.
With a barn that moves weekly, there is no concrete floor where manure builds up, no permanently muddy patch that must be 'sluiced' off.
And once we'd boxed up his butchering gear and 'sluiced' down the boards of the wagon, a bucket at a time, it became something we never talked on again.
Another option is to open 'sluices' , releasing water and lowering river levels.
Modern science has yet to explain how it is that a bathtub, which gets 'sluiced' with soapy water just about every day, gets dirty.
The buildings are long gone, but some foundations are still there, as well as the nearby mill stream and part of a dam and 'sluiceway' .
The warm water 'sluicing' over my body chased the rest of the cotton of too long a sleep from my mind.
There is a nice park with picnic tables at the base of the dam, and above you can actually walk along the top of the colossal structure, observing the 'sluices' and massive spillway chute from a birds-eye view.
The cliffs are a reminder that a giant, lazy river 'sluiced' through the prairie as it coursed west to the Pacific, a passage since blocked by the rise of the Andes.
Before the construction of dams and barrages, floodwaters would spill out of the river's banks and, channeled by 'sluices' and dikes, cover most of the agricultural land.
He had used the old seaman's trick of scattering the floorboards with salt and then 'sluicing' them with boiling water and then scouring them with the hard bristled brush.
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