Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
sluice or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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sluice + -like
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Examples
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The only problem: there was no way to guide your canoe back up the sluicelike chute against the flow of lava.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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The only problem: there was no way to guide your canoe back up the sluicelike chute against the flow of lava.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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The only problem: there was no way to guide your canoe back up the sluicelike chute against the flow of lava.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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A long, racing sluicelike incline of black waters, streaked with swirls of white, appeared before them.
Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906
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