sluiceway

American  

[sloos-wey] / ˈslusˌweɪ /

noun

1. a channel controlled by a sluice gate.

2. any artificial channel for water.

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sluiceway Scientific  

/ slo̅o̅s′wā′ /

1. An artificial channel, especially one for carrying off a portion of the current of a stream, canal, or other larger body of water.

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Etymology

Origin of sluiceway

An Americanism dating back to 1770–80; sluice + way ¹

Example Sentences

When it is time to harvest Superior Fresh’s salmon, workers in waterproof clothing use a long-handled net to carefully lift the fish onto a portable sluiceway.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 9, 2023

A bowl works as a natural sluiceway to take us back to the lower T-bar.

From Time Magazine Archive

In minutes I hear the water gushing down the sluiceway, bubbling and chortling along until it spills out the end and strikes the paddles of the wheel just forward of its highest point.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Logs were shooting from the apron of the sluiceway and leaping to the lift of the foaming back-water, like lean hunters taking the billowy top of a wind-tossed hedge.

From Lost Farm Camp by Knibbs, Harry Herbert

Somewhere near him water was falling with a musical sound in a subterranean sluiceway.

From A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West by Garland, Hamlin