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Swill vs Sluice - What's the difference?

swill | sluice |

As nouns the difference between swill and sluice

is that swill is a mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose 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 verbs the difference between swill and sluice

is that swill is to eat or drink greedily or to excess while sluice is (rare) to emit by, or as by, flood gates.

swill

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose
  • any disgusting or distasteful liquid
    • I cannot believe anyone could drink this swill .
  • anything disgusting or worthless
    • This new TV show is a worthless load of swill .
  • a large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow
    • He took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words.
  • (Ultimate Frisbee) A badly-thrown pass
  • Inexpensive beer

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to eat or drink greedily or to excess
  • * Smollett
    • Well-dressed people, of both sexes, devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider.
  • *1913 ,
  • *:If you can give me no more than twenty-five shillings, I'm sure I'm not going to buy you pork-pie to stuff, after you've swilled a bellyful of beer.
  • to wash something by flooding with water
  • * Shakespeare
    • As fearfully as doth a galled rock / O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, / Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
  • to inebriate; to fill with drink.
  • * Milton
    • I should be loth / To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence / Of such late wassailers.
  • to feed pigs swill
  • * 1921 , (Nephi Anderson), Dorian Chapter 8
  • *:"Carlia, have you swilled the pigs?"

    • Anagrams

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    sluice

    English

    (wikipedia sluice)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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)
    • Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars)
    • This home familiarity opens the sluices of sensibility.
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * sluiceway * sluice gate

    Coordinate terms

    * dam * lock * weir

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
    • (Milton)
  • To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
    • (Howitt)
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars)
    • He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water.
  • To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
    • to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining
  • To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.

    • Coordinate terms

    * (washing in mining) pan

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "sluice")

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