Usually means: Gates controlling water flow levels.
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  1. sluices: Merriam-Webster
  2. sluices: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. sluices: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sluices: Wiktionary
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  8. Sluices: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (sluice)

noun:  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.
noun:  A water gate or floodgate.
noun:  Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
noun:  The stream flowing through a floodgate.
noun:  (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
noun:  (linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
verb:  (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
verb:  (transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
verb:  (transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out).
verb:  (intransitive) To flow, pour.
verb:  (linguistics) To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
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