sluice
ജലനിയന്ത്രണ
definition
verb
she sluiced her face in cold water
wash or rinse freely with a stream or shower of water.
noun
The sluice gate regulates the volume of water that strikes the wheel, and has to be judged with some care to prevent the mill stones from spinning too fast and vibrating too much.
a sliding gate or other device for controlling the flow of water, especially one in a lock gate.
a sluice with cold water
an act of rinsing or showering with water.
example
Water was pumped by an old fire-engine from the creek to the quarry to 'sluice' clay off the stone.
Gravels were added to a 'sluice' box, and gravity-sorting concentrated the gold.
He even made a 'sluice' of tin and boards to catch and carry the rainwater to the parched crops.
They have 1.7 grams after two programmes out of six which seems reasonable bearing in mind that they also have some left not weighed in the fibrous material they use to catch the gold particles from their 'sluice' .
Especially as it said that in case of contact with the mucous membrane - that's another expression to make us girls feel good about ourselves - you're supposed to 'sluice' yourself down right away with lots of water.
I can't cite any similar highhandness on Woodward's part, nor is he the sort to 'sluice' the words of authorities directly into his journalism.
In the cage, I could hear only the 'sluice' and swoosh of rushing and retreating water.
He could hear Joe working the handle of the 'sluice' that would send water gushing into the other troughs.
Huge mounds of river rock stand with great hubris along the creek banks, remnants of the exhaustive 'sluice' and placer mining operations that once took place on the town's perimeter.
a 'sluice' with cold water
This large drain runs straight in a North Easterly direction, under various bridges, the Well Creek, eventually ending at a 'sluice' which separates the fresh water from the salt water of the Tidal Ouse.
This had caused levels in the lodge to fluctuate and water had to be diverted from the stream via a 'sluice' .
Then 'sluice' everything down with a coffee tarek.
She stopped, staring, as several score thoughts and fears, feelings and emotions kicked her in the tail, clenching her gut and sending a 'sluice' of cold water down her spine.
If rain falls into the bird's mouth, theoretically it could 'sluice' down the windpipe past the larynx and into the lungs.
We still use it for watering the garden and I have been known to 'sluice' the back of my neck under it on a hot afternoon (not often this summer).
a 'sluice' with cold water
Dozens of small balsa-wood structures were scattered on the cement floor, both within and outside the ambit of a crude wooden 'sluice' system that carried a fitfully circulating trickle of water.
Having left my shoes outside at the reception desk I was given a locker for my clothes and belongings, before being ushered by the receptionist into the shower room for a thorough 'sluice' down and then put into a steam room for 15 minutes.
He had used the old seaman's trick of scattering the floorboards with salt and then 'sluicing' them with boiling water and then scouring them with the hard bristled brush.
Modern science has yet to explain how it is that a bathtub, which gets 'sluiced' with soapy water just about every day, gets dirty.
The fields are bounded by drainage ditches and 'sluices' are now being added so that the water levels can be controlled to provide the optimum conditions.
As winter came and went, and the bulldozer came and went with it, the main access roads turned into deep trenches, 'sluicing' runoff and causing serious erosion.
The warm water 'sluicing' over my body chased the rest of the cotton of too long a sleep from my mind.
He drank enormous quantities of water, but so great was the heat of the day and of his exertions, that the water 'sluiced' through the interstices of his flesh and out at all his pores.
She's the kind of boat that demands sure knot tying from her crew and an acceptance of salt water 'sluicing' down one's neck and ending up in one's boots.
What he wants to do is send you to bed with ice water 'sluicing' down your nape and a knot of unease in your gut.
The Firth of Lorn is so full of warring tiderips 'sluicing' through deep, slender channels between the swarming islands, it is seldom still.
The cliffs are a reminder that a giant, lazy river 'sluiced' through the prairie as it coursed west to the Pacific, a passage since blocked by the rise of the Andes.
Once the water is 'sluiced' off, the brakes might suddenly get big power.
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