sluiceway
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- noun
- /ˈsluːsweɪ/
- Specialized
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canal de desagüe
- Adams had never before walked here, and now, even early in the morning, when the street was deserted, he felt threatened, as if the deteriorating sidewalk beneath him could at any moment give way and drop him, like a stone, into a sewer line or a sluiceway.
Examples
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The gradual downward slope of the sluiceway was at first barely perceptible, but he was aware of it because he had passed that way many times before.
Fiction book (1992) -
The concrete sluiceway, along which the gondolas had once moved, was three feet deep and eight feet wide.
Fiction book (1992) -
Mark Sr. fired up the propane stove as we listened to the river slide through the old log sluiceway.
Blog text (13) -
The sluiceway directed the rushing water from the dam into the river below.
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After heavy rainfall, the sluiceway helped to quickly drain the flooded fields.
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Workers cleared debris from the sluiceway to ensure proper water flow during the storm.
Synonyms
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5.4
A channel that carries extra water over a dam to prevent flooding
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A channel that controls water flow with a gate
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4.1
A channel or area that directs extra floodwater away from homes and buildings
A large pipe or channel that carries water to a turbine
A narrow ditch made by people that drains water from fields
The natural channel that a river follows through the land
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Etymology
Sluiceway comes from sluice (an old word meaning 'to let water out' or a 'sliding gate') and -way ('path' or 'channel'). So a sluiceway is a 'path for water', a channel where water flows quickly and is often controlled by a gate.