A tidal marsh or shallow that periodically fills and drains.
Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.
A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
Small coal; coal dust.
A valley, or small, shallow dell.
Moderately warm.
Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
Not active or busy, successful, or violent.
Excess; surplus to requirements.
Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.
Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
Lax.
Moderate in speed.
Weak; not holding fast.
To slacken.
To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.
Slackly.
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.
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.