noun. The material of a sluice or sluiceway.

verb. Present participle of sluice.

noun. The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.

noun. A kind of ellipsis, introduced by an interrogative, where (usually) everything except the interrogative is elided from the clause, as in "I like him, but I don't know why".

adjective. pouring from or as if from a sluice

"My initial interpretation was the sluicing was before 1968 but you’re right, it may have been long term sluicing from 1968 to 2005."

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