Clues for the word "SLUICE"
We've had 33 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 58 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on November 11, 2025.
Definition of sluice
- n. - An artifical 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.
- n. - Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
- n. - The stream flowing through a flood gate.
- n. - A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
- v. t. - To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- v. t. - To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
- v. t. - To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
Referring Clues
- Floodgate
- Water channel
- Artificial water channel
- Regulated channel
- Gated conduit
- Flood control device
- Millstream passage
- Flood-gated stream
- Artificial channel
- Prospector's channel
- Millstream channel
- Irrigation device
- Flow controller
- Rinse freely
- Gated water channel
- Water conduit
- Sloping water trough
- Water gate
- Watergate: various clues lead to impeachment
- Water-controlling gate
- Where the rushing water can cut round a bend?
- Wash or rinse with a stream of water
- Piece of cake including turn into drain
- Watergate clue is contrived
- Crippled by guilt, cease to be a water regulator
- Water channel with a gate
- Watergate clues I cracked
- Clues I arranged for Watergate!
- Waterway
- Gold miner's water trough
- Where the rushing water can cut round a bend?
- Channel with a gate
- Streaming channel?
Last Seen In
- LA Times - November 11, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 07, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - February 19, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 29, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 09, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 25, 2023
- New York Times - April 13, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - February 19, 2023
- New York Times - July 15, 2022
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 17, 2017
- Universal - October 14, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 16, 2017
- Penny Dell Sunday - April 16, 2017
- New York Times - December 20, 2016
- Universal - December 06, 2016
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 23, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 21, 2016
- Netword - June 05, 2016
- USA Today - May 04, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - April 26, 2016
- New York Times - March 23, 2016
- Netword - December 06, 2015
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 21, 2015
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 08, 2015
- Universal - July 31, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 30, 2015
- USA Today - April 24, 2015
- Guardian Quick - March 21, 2015
- Universal - October 09, 2014
- Chicago Reader - January 10, 2014
- And in 28 more crossword puzzles...