Plural of sluice

Forms of sluice

Sluices in a sentence

• Another powerful argument that sluices are CPs comes from the positional distribution of sluiced wh-phrases in a variety of languages.2001, Jason Merchant, “The Syntax of Sluicing”, in The Syntax of Silence, →DOI, page 45
• The sluices of the great dams were closed and the floodwater impounded and held there, to be let out slowly over the succeeding weeks.2000 February 15, United States Army Corps of Engineers, quoting William B. Newcomb, “Letter from Mr. William B. Newcomb to Mr. Tod D.…. From the entry river bottom
• People tear down trees to build their houses, and the melting snow water sluices down the mountainside, carrying occasional houses and blackclad robeclad Zen masters too.2010, Jason Murk, Mexican Song of Sunshine. From the entry blackclad
• He knows the fortifications – crumbling – and beyond the city walls the lands of the Pale, its woods, villages and marshes, its sluices, dykes and canals.2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 402. From the entry pale

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.

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Questions about the plural of sluice

What is the plural of sluice?

The plural of sluice is sluices.

Is sluice countable?

Sluice is a countable noun.