Synonyms of the word

sluiceway

• n. a man-made channel designed to redirect excess water.

conduit

• n. A pipe or channel for conveying water etc.
• n. A duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled; a type of raceway.
• n. A means by which something is transmitted.
• n. (finance) An investment vehicle that issues short-term commercial paper to finance long-term off-balance…

penstock

• n. A sluice or pipe which allows the controlled flow of water from behind a dam, typically routing it to…
• n. The barrel of a wooden pump.

sluice

• n. An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream,…
• n. A water gate or floodgate.
• n. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
• n. The stream flowing through a flood gate.
• n. (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
• n. (linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
• v. (transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
• v. (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice.
• v. (transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
• v. (transitive) (more generally) To wash (down or out).
• v. (intransitive) To flow, pour.
• v. (linguistics) To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.