or use Advanced Search
if you are searching for a compound word, note that it might appear in any of three ways, reflecting varied editorial practice: spaced ('house keeper'), solid ('housekeeper'), or hyphenated ('house-keeper')

Search results

Search phrase: sluice

Plays

 2 result(s). alternate result(s)
PlayKey LineModern TextOriginal Text
Richard IIR2 I.i.103Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood;Sluc'd out his innocent soule through streames of blood:
The Winter's TaleWT I.ii.194That little thinks she has been sluiced in's absence,That little thinkes she ha's been sluyc'd in's absence,

Poems

 2 result(s).
PlayKey LineModern TextOriginal Text
The Rape of LucreceLuc.1076 My tongue shall utter all; mine eyes, like sluices, My tongue shall vtter all, mine eyes like sluces,
Venus and AdonisVen.956 She vailed her eyelids, who, like sluices, stopped She vaild her eye-lids, who like sluces stopt

Glossary

 2 result(s).
sluicesend water through, draw water from; screw
sluicefloodgate

Thesaurus

 0 result(s).

Themes and Topics

 0 result(s).

Words Families

 2 result(s).
Word FamilyWord Family GroupWords
SLUICEBASICsluice n, sluice v

Snippets

 0 result(s).
x

Jump directly to