Converse of object

• open: Lock gates must always be properly closed before slowly opening the sluices to fill or empty the lock.

• build: Edwards was also asked to survey the whole river and put a plan together to build a new sluice at Boston.

• close: The water was built up and stored by closing the two sluices to stop the water flowing downstream.

• have: The proposed Severn Barrage has sluices to allow water to enter the storage basin behind the dam.

Preposition: at

• end: A sluice at one end would allow the excess water to escape.

Converse of subject

• control: The outlet channel became a lagoon controlled by sluices and the mudflats were reclaimed as pasture.

Adjective modifier

• upper: It was straight through, to wait for the upper sluice to drop and the lower sluice to raise.

• new: Edwards was also asked to survey the whole river and put a plan together to build a new sluice at Boston.

• tidal: Disruption of a normal flow regime The major example if the tidal sluice at Cley next the Sea.

• low: We finalized the time with Barry, he said that the lower sluice was about a foot lower than the road bridge.

• old: The level of the mill dam has dropped and is now below the level of the old wheel sluice.

Modifies a noun

• gate: The rusty original sluice paddle gate has survived being buried for 30 years.

• valve: Water was pouring out of the 12 inch sluice valve.

• room: Mrs C was lying across a doorway next to the sluice room ( where commodes are rinsed out ).

• gear: Sluice gear for the ground paddles at the top of the lock.

• plate: A sluice plate in the center of the dam can be raised to allow release of water.

Noun used with modifier

• control: Ahead could be seen the official end of navigation the Great Raveley Drain control sluice.

• wheel: The level of the mill dam has dropped and is now below the level of the old wheel sluice.

Followed by a transitive particle

• away: Sydney 2000 must be the Olympics that start to sluice away the evils that have built up in the bloated body of the movement.