sluice
/sluːs/ verbe C2En français : rincer à grande eau, couler à flots
- To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
- To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice. · to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining
- To wash (down or out).
- To flow, pour.
- To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
He/she/it sluices · Prétérit sluiced · Participe passé sluiced · Forme en -ing sluicing
Formes du verbe
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- Forme en -ing
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Dans la bibliothèque
Here is the sluice with the race running under--
“That’s Nag or Nagaina,” he said to himself, “and he is crawling into the bath-room sluice.
At the bottom of the smooth plaster wall there was a brick pulled out to make a sluice for the bath water, and as Rikki-tikki stole in by the masonry curb where the bath is put, he heard Nag and Nagaina whispering together outside in the moonlight.
Rikki-tikki tingled all over with rage and hatred at this, and then Nag’s head came through the sluice, and his five feet of cold body followed it.
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