The act or process of washing or rinsing with a stream of water, often used to remove debris or unwanted material.
The sluicing of the gold-bearing gravel was an essential step in the mining process.
(Linguistics) An elliptical construction in which all but the interrogative word or phrase is omitted from a clause, typically leaving a wh-word followed by an auxiliary.
In the sentence "Someone left, but I don't know who," the missing material after "who" is recovered by sluicing.
sluicinggerundium / partizip präsens
Flowing or falling in a stream of water; engaged in or used for sluicing.
They struggled through the sluicing rain to reach shelter.
sluiceverb
To wash or rinse freely with a stream or shower of water.
After the hike, they sluiced their muddy boots with a hose.
To let out or draw off water through a sluice.
The workers sluiced the excess water from the flooded field.
To flow or pour through or as if through a sluice.
The rainwater sluiced down the gutters during the storm.