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sluicings

sluicings is the plural of sluicing.

Meaning of sluicing

Noun

sluicing (countable and uncountable, plural sluicings)

  1. The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.
  2. A kind of ellipsis, introduced by an interrogative, where (usually) everything except the interrogative is elided from the clause.

Questions about sluicings

What is sluicings the plural of?
Sluicings is the plural of sluicing.

Words near sluicings in the dictionary

  1. sluiceways
  2. sluicing
  3. sluicing one's bolt
  4. sluicing out
  5. sluicingly
  6. sluicings
  7. sluicy
  8. sluing
  9. Sluis
  10. sluit
  11. sluits

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