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SLUICES

7 letters

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Classic 5 pts
Big 5 pts
Super Big 5 pts

SLUICES is a valid 7-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 5 in Classic, 5 in Big, and 5 in Super Big Boggle.

SLUICES root SLUICE-s

Word family

SLUICE 3 SLUICING 11 SLUICED-d 5
noun
  1. An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
  2. A water gate or floodgate.
  3. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
  4. The stream flowing through a floodgate.
  5. A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
  6. An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
verb
  1. raretransitiveTo emit by, or as by, flood gates.
  2. transitiveTo wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
  3. transitiveTo wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
    • to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining
  4. broadlytransitiveTo wash (down or out).
  5. intransitiveTo flow, pour.
  6. To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.