loofah vs sluice

loofah

verb
  • To clean or scrub with a loofah. 

noun
  • Any bathing sponge 

  • A tropical vine, of the genus Luffa, having almost cylindrical fruit with a spongy, fibrous interior; the dishcloth gourd 

  • The dried fibrous interior used as a sponge for bathing 

sluice

verb
  • To wash (down or out). 

  • To flow, pour. 

  • To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing. 

  • To emit by, or as by, flood gates. 

  • To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice 

  • To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice. 

noun
  • The stream flowing through a floodgate. 

  • A water gate or floodgate. 

  • A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth. 

  • An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing. 

  • 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. 

  • Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. 

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