1. the act of washing or cleaning with flowing water

1. washing or rinsing with a large flow of water
2. flowing or pouring rapidly in large quantities
3. searching for gold by washing ore with water
Usage: mining

Examples

• The miners were sluicing gravel to find gold.
• Rain was sluicing down the mountainside.
• She began sluicing the mud off her boots.
• Water came sluicing through the broken dam.
• The sluicing of the deck took several hours.
• Heavy rain was sluicing off the roof.
• They spent the morning sluicing dirt from the equipment.