sluiced

Verb

sluice (third-person singular simple present sluices, present participle sluicing, simple past and past participle sluiced)

1. (rare, transitive) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
   • Nigh on the plain, in many cells prepared, / That underneath had veins of liquid fire / Sluiced from the lake, a second multitude / With wondrous art founded the massy ore, / Severing each kind, and scummed the bullion-dross.1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
2. (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
   • Nine - mile Creek has been dug out again and again , and has been sluiced three times1855, William Howitt, Land, Labour and Gold; or, Two Years in Victoria
3. (transitive) 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
4. (broadly, transitive) To wash (down or out).
   • […] he did plot the Duke of Gloucester's death, / Suggest his soon-believing adversaries, / And consequently, like a traitor coward, / Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to...
5. (intransitive) To flow, pour.
   • In the trough behind the white wave / Helen shook her dark head, the water sluiced from her shoulders / And rose-tipped breasts.1932, Robinson Jeffers, “Thurso's Landing”, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, New York: Random House, page 311
6. To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
   • In sum, then, it is possible to sluice over a correlate in a relative clause just in case the independent constraints regulating the distribution of (E-type) anaphora are met: again, we see that nothing particular to sluicing need be said.2001, Jason Merchant, “Deletio redux”, in The Syntax of Silence, →DOI, page 221

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