单词 |
sluice-way |
释义 |
sluice-way [f. sluice n.] A channel or waterway fed or controlled by means of a sluice or sluices. Also in Lumbering (see quot. 1851).
1779W. McKendry Jrnl. 8 Aug. in Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1886) II. 461 The sluce way was broke up and the water filld. the river immediately. 1851Harper's Mag. III. 517 For taking logs down mountain sides..we construct what are called dry sluice⁓ways. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Ability, A mill is built, a banking-house is opened, and men come in, as water in a sluice-way. 1874[see sluice-box]. 1879Lumberman's Gaz. 16 July 5 The bark is thrust into sluice-ways to the chains and carried by them outside. fig.1858E. D. Proctor Beecher's Life Th. (1860) 114 A drain or sluiceway by which the heavenly stream of God's favour escapes from them. |

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