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

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sluiceway

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

Park & Van Buren, who are building a new draining system at the lake, tried to avert the disaster by digging a sluiceway on one side to ease the pressure on the dam.

From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by Walker, James Herbert

I’ll be locked into this dam by you, with sluiceway refused to me—that’s what it will come to—you offering me a cut price for the logs I can’t get down to the Adonia sawmills.

From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Day, Holman