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sluice meaning in Malayalam

മട maṭa

/sluːs/

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Northern Ireland/ˈslʉs/

sluice in Malayalam: മട (maṭa). In English, sluice means an artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.

Malayalam words for sluice

sluice, water channel
മട maṭa

English meaning of sluice

  1. noun An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
  2. noun A water gate or floodgate.
  3. noun Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
  4. noun The stream flowing through a floodgate.

Full definition of sluice

sluice in a sentence

  • to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining

sluice in other languages

Questions about sluice in Malayalam

What is the meaning of sluice in Malayalam?
Sluice in Malayalam is മട (maṭa).
sluice എന്നതിന്റെ മലയാളം അർത്ഥം എന്താണ്?
Sluice: മട (maṭa).
What does sluice mean in English?
Sluice means an artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.

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Malayalam words from Wiktionary's Malayalam entries whose English meaning is “sluice”: മട. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: sluice (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Malayalam words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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