Clues for the word "SLUICE"
We've had 33 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 57 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph crossword on March 07, 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
- 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
- Inkwell - January 09, 2014
- And in 27 more crossword puzzles...