SLUICE

sloos (sekher, literally, "hire"): In Isaiah 19:10, the King James Version reads, "all that make sluices and ponds for fish." the Revised Version (British and American) entirely alters the translation of the whole verse. It reads, "And the pillars of Egypt shall be broken in pieces; all they that work for hire (margin "that make dams") shall be grieved in soul."

1. (n.) An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.

2. (n.) Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.

3. (n.) The stream flowing through a flood gate.

4. (n.) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.

5. (v. t.) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.

6. (v. t.) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.

7. (v. t.) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice earth or gold dust in mining.

699. arubbah -- a lattice, window, sluice
... << 698, 699. arubbah. 700 >>. a lattice, window, sluice. Transliteration: arubbah
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-oob-baw') Short Definition: windows. ...
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