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What is the noun for sluiced?

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sluice
  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. (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
  6. (linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “The man on the surface uses his pole to dislodge stones so the outflow can run freely down the sluice into which the gold-bearing pay dirt is meant to settle.”
sluicing
  1. The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.
  2. (linguistics) A kind of ellipsis, introduced by an interrogative, where (usually) everything except the interrogative is elided from the clause, as in "I like him, but I don't know why".
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sluicings
sluices
  1. plural of sluice
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Ashore a spume of brine water rains from an overhanging crag and sluices back through the beach.”
      “These are then used to keep the cruiser steady as water sluices out of the lock.”
      “Locally the sluices and waterways from the flood plain to the river are in several cases clogged up.”
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