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Sluice
Water channel controlled at its head by a gate / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Sluiced" redirects here. For the linguistic phenomenon, see sluicing.
A sluice (/slus/ SLOOS) is a water channel containing a sluice gate, a type of lock to manage the water flow and water level. It can also be an open channel which processes material, such as a river sluice used in gold prospecting or fossicking. A mill race, leet, flume, penstock or lade is a sluice channeling water toward a water mill. The terms sluice, sluice gate, knife gate, and slide gate are used interchangeably in the water and wastewater control industry.
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