Definition of "sluices" []

• Plural form of sluice. (noun)

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• "After heavy rain sluices cauliflowers into the drains, you have to insert big filters to stop them clogging everything up, otherwise they create the most awful stench of rotting vegetation. cauliflower/grandfather"
• "Water sluices from the assassin’s shoulders as it lurches forward."
• "In this kind of mining the "pay-dirt" was shovelled into long wooden boxes called sluices, and a constant stream of water kept the gravel and earth moving on out to a dumping-place."