Bayou vs Sluice - What's the difference?
bayou | sluice |
A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river.
A swamp, a marshy (stagnant) body of water.
An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
* (and other bibliographic particulars)
* (and other bibliographic particulars)
The stream flowing through a flood gate.
(mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
(linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
(rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
* (and other bibliographic particulars)
To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
As nouns the difference between bayou and sluice
is that bayou is a slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river while sluice is an artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.As a verb sluice is
to emit by, or as by, flood gates.bayou
English
(wikipedia bayou)Alternative forms
* byoNoun
(en noun)Usage notes
* Used almost exclusively to refer to bodies of water in Louisiana and the adjoining areas, including southern Mississippi, eastern Texas, and Arkansas.Anagrams
* ----sluice
English
(wikipedia sluice)Noun
(en noun)- Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon.
- This home familiarity opens the sluices of sensibility.
Derived terms
* sluiceway * sluice gateCoordinate terms
* dam * lock * weirVerb
(en-verb)- (Milton)
- (Howitt)
- He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water.
- to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining