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sluice: synonyms: ~mill race ???

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Definition:

1. 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 of flood gate.
2. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
3. The stream flowing through a flood gate.

^{Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)}
^{painting: by Jacob van Ruisdael (1653)}
^{https://www.wikiart.org/en/jacob-van-ruisdael/two-watermills-and-an-open-sluice-1653/}
^{painting: by Jacob van Ruisdael (around 1668)}
_{http://emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/55095/landscape-with-sluice-gate?ctx=781982b8-c322-4e24-b317-c30e9c3c8c00&idx=23}

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There was a reasonably good path now, mostly on the edge of the river, with a divergence here and there where a dike came, with a miniature windmill on it and a muddy sluice-gate.

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)

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wondering what sort of shape the Oxbow Dam was in, and if the sluice gates had been left open or shut.

Stephen King. The Stand (1990)

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The water gushed happily down the sluice under the idle water-wheel into the millpond.

Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)

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All of a sudden the lightning let go a perfect sluice of white glare,

Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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he sluiced his head with cold water,